&gt;Processor architecture is not processor architecture is not processor architecture.<p>Interestingly, I&#x27;ve come across multiple computer people who didn&#x27;t know this basic fact. Hardware engineers,  sysadmins and devs who were surprised when I said a binary&#x2F;EXE for one processor architecture (and hence, machine instruction set) cannot run on another architecture (except for special cases that may exist nowadays, like maybe Apple related to PowerPC vs Intel CPUs?) But even then it is probably due to special extra steps being taken.<p>Edited to add hardware engineer category.