English Dictionary: Fat Binary | by the DICT Development Group |
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
fat binary than one {CPU}. The correct code is selected automatically at run time. This is convenient for distributing {software} and sharing it between multiple {platforms}. {NEXTSTEP} supports fat binaries, e.g. for {Motorola 68000}, {Intel 80486} and {SPARC} ("triple fat"). {Mac OS} supports fat binaries for both {680x0} and {PowerPC} native code. [Other OSes?] (1995-09-23) |