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  2. Binary-code compatibility - Wikipedia

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    Binary-code compatibility (binary compatible or object-code compatible) is a property of a computer system, meaning that it can run the same executable code, typically machine code for a general-purpose computer central processing unit (CPU), that another computer system can run.

  3. Compatibility layer - Wikipedia

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    In software engineering, a compatibility layer is an interface that allows binaries for a legacy or foreign system to run on a host system. This translates system calls for the foreign system into native system calls for the host system. With some libraries for the foreign system, this will often be sufficient to run foreign binaries on the ...

  4. Haiku (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    Haiku, originally OpenBeOS, is a free and open-source operating system for personal computers. It is a community-driven continuation of BeOS and aims to be binary-compatible with it, but is largely a reimplementation with the exception of certain components like the Deskbar. [7]

  5. Universal binary - Wikipedia

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    The operating system detects a universal binary by its header, and executes the appropriate section for the architecture in use. This allows the application to run natively on any supported architecture, with no negative performance impact beyond an increase in the storage space taken up by the larger binary.

  6. Mac operating systems - Wikipedia

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    The classic Mac OS is the original Macintosh operating system introduced in 1984 alongside the first Macintosh and remained in primary use on Macs until Mac OS X in 2001. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Apple released the original Macintosh on January 24, 1984; its early system software is partially based on Lisa OS , and inspired by the Alto computer, which ...

  7. Object-oriented operating system - Wikipedia

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    An object-oriented operating system [1] is an operating system that is designed, structured, and operated using object-oriented programming principles. An object-oriented operating system is in contrast to an object-oriented user interface or programming framework , which can be run on a non-object-oriented operating system like DOS or Unix .

  8. Architecture of macOS - Wikipedia

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    Rhapsody built on NeXTSTEP, porting the core system to the PowerPC architecture and adding a redesigned user interface based on the Platinum user interface from Mac OS 8. An emulation layer called Blue Box allowed Mac OS applications to run within an actual instance of the Mac OS and an integrated Java platform. [1]

  9. macOS - Wikipedia

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    At macOS's core is a POSIX-compliant operating system built on top of the XNU kernel, [81] (which incorporated large parts of FreeBSD kernel [14]) and FreeBSD userland [14] for the standard Unix facilities available from the command line interface. Apple has released this family of software as a free and open source operating system named Darwin.