It was initially included with Mac OS X v10.4.4 'Tiger', the version that was released with the first Intel-based Macs, and allowed many PowerPC applications to run on certain Intel-based Mac computers without modification.
for macOS.Īpple released the first version of Rosetta in 2006 when it changed the instruction set architecture of the Macintosh platform from the PowerPC to the Intel processor. Rosetta is a dynamic binary translator developed by Apple Inc.
PowerPCbinary translation (original version)
PowerPC application (Microsoft Word for Mac 2004) running on OS X for Intel in Rosetta
