If I had to characterize them, Rosetta was brilliant, and Classic was a half-done hack. Rosetta also didn't seem to provide a huge performance hit (for the things I ran on it), whereas I never had a machine which ran Classic in a way that didn't tell me it had a lot of overhead. Some things I could never get to work properly in Classic. Classic was an add-on, which didn't run well (in my experience). The difference was that Rosetta was built-in and worked transparently, and perfectly, for most people. Not much difference between that and keeping a Core 2 Duo around for Snow Leopard and Rosetta. You're welcome to run Tiger on an old PPC Mac for Classic. An if I really wanted to rant, I'd complain that there was never something like Rosetta for OS 9 applications (I STILL miss Word Perfect.) So there, rationality.
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