[Wine] How to install Wine to PowerPC (MacOs)

perryh at pluto.rain.com perryh at pluto.rain.com
Fri Sep 18 03:13:27 CDT 2009


James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> You can visit the Darwine project on Sourceforge ...
> The last PPC build was over two years ago and required an
> X86 emulator to run.  I think they were using a dual G5
> and were very upset at the performance of the package ...

This must be discouraging news to anyone interested in Wine on PPC.
A dual G5 (aka a dual PPC970) was surely the hottest PPC Mac ever
made, and one of the fastest PPC's of any stripe -- although a 4x970
(Tigerwood or similar) would likely outrun it on a workload amenable
to parallel execution.



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