> If if did, then that would imply that the program binaries used by > both the PPC & Intel Macs was being stored on your PPC hard drive. IMO > that would be a lot of wasted space! (Lord knows I don't want any OS X > PPC binaries on my Intel MacBook's hard drive.)
They're all universal binaries... For example : /bin/sh [rogue] [hogsett] [/bin] --> file sh sh: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures sh (for architecture i386): Mach-O executable i386 sh (for architecture ppc7400): Mach-O executable ppc [rogue] [hogsett] [/bin] --> uname -a Darwin rogue.csl.sri.com 9.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.7.0: Tue Mar 31 22:52:17 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.12.14~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 [rogue] [hogsett] [/bin] And /Applications/Mail.app [rogue] [hogsett] [/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS] --> pwd /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS [rogue] [hogsett] [/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS] --> file Mail Mail: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures Mail (for architecture i386): Mach-O executable i386 Mail (for architecture ppc7400): Mach-O executable ppc [rogue] [hogsett] [/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
