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The History of SheepShaver: BeOS, PowerPC, and a Second Life for Mac OS

SheepShaver history cover with Christian Bauer’s cycling photo and project imagery

A new BeOS workstation could be exciting and inconvenient at the same time. Christian Bauer had moved from his Amiga 4000 to a BeBox, a machine whose two processors and new operating system appealed to him. That did not make the Mac applications people wanted to use disappear. SheepShaver put a Mac environment inside that other desktop. Its original PowerPC-hosted form could execute guest code on the real processor. After Be’s decline,… Read more

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Evolve
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