On Jun 20, 2006, at 4:29 AM, John Sunderland wrote:

Pardon my ignorance, what is a binary if it isn't universal?
Bernard

Because OS X runs on PowerPC and Intel chips a program would actually need two different binaries to run on them A Universal Binary is a way, on OS X , to ship a program that can run on either kind of chip

If it's not Universal (ie/ native for the chip it's installed on) it may run in a mode where the PowerPC instructions are translated, on the fly, to Intel ones

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