On Jun 20, 2006, at 9:46 AM, John Sunderland wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, what is a binary if it isn't universal?
Because OS X runs on PowerPC and Intel chips a program would
actually need two different binaries to run on them
Thanks for the explanation. So am I understanding correctly that
'binary' no longer refers to a number base but is now shorthand for
binary instruction code which we used to call, without ambiguity,
'machine code'?
Bernard
Yes. A 'binary" is what people use to refer to a compiled executable
in many cases, often meaning a compiled binary.
This is different from the "source" versions you often get from open
source software.
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