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Ha!!!
Seriously, the clarification is welcomed.
Kirby
Kirby McDaniel
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On Apr 10, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Colin Hunter wrote:
> On a more persnickety level, I wouldn't call Flashback a Mac program either,
> although it certainly runs on some Macs, and (to date) only on Macs. Rather,
> Flashback is Java code which bypasses all the safeguards in the Mac OS to
> install itself. It runs in the Oracle Java engine, which in turn runs on top
> of the Mac OS, but only if Java has been installed. People with Mac OS X 10.7
> (Lion) and higher don't even have Java unless they specifically download and
> run the separate installer. Also, older Macs which have PPC processors
> instead of the newer Intel-based Macs can't run the Flashback Java code which
> has been compiled only for Intel CPUs.
>
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