amiga: Re: What does "binary emulation" means?

Subject: Re: What does "binary emulation" means?
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Brian McCloskey <amiga040@rmii.com>
List: amiga
Date: 01/28/1996 17:28:31

On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Jan 1996 17:31:31 +0100 
>  dante@mbox.vol.it (Baldassare Profeta) wrote:
> 
>  > So, if I download Netscape for SunOS 4.1.3, would I be able to run it on a
>  > A4000/040 ?
> 
> No ... that netscape binary is for a SPARC system.

So, does this binary emulation mean that you can only run those binaries 
that were compiled on 680X0 architecture under the other OS's?  

Brian McCloskey