Photo-Shop 5.5 compatible with OSX?

Hi All...
My son purchased an OsX-based machine this past summer - I'm not sure if it's panther or tiger... I came upon a used version of Photo-Shop, version 5.5 . Among the system requirements it includes "PowerPC based Macintosh computer, Apple System Software 7.6 or later".
Not being at all familiar with Mac - sorry, if I didnt make a living developing Windows software, I'd cut over in a heartbeat... - I'm a bit skeptical whether this software will run or not. I do realize the OsX machines have a very different operating system based on Unix. If it will run the software, I'll give it to my son as a Christmas gift - if not, I wont bother.
Will the newer OsX operating system support PhotoShop 5.5 that requires a PowerPC-based machine?
Thanks for your help in advance and happy holidays!
Curt

If he bought one of the new machines that are based on the Intel processor then he won't be able to use any programs that require the Classic Mac OS. It isn't just a matter of OS X, in older machines you can run pre-OS X programs in a kind of emulation environment inside OS X. But the new machines that have the Intel architecture won't do that. There is an emulation mode, called Rosetta, that will run programs built to run OS X applications that were for the PowerPC machines. The oldest version of Photoshop that meets this requirement is version 7, or Photoshop Elements version 2 and up. Any program for PowerPCs that are also pre-OS X won't run on an Intel machine.
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