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nervous
BOTH
There are CPUs: i386, Sparc, PowerPC, MIPS, PA-RISC, MC68020 etc
There are object file formats: ELF, XCOFF, COFF, PE, SOM, AOUT etc
Then there are CPU modes, 64 bit, 32 bit
And also operating system versions, so typically a binary compiled for one version of an OS cannot be used on an earlier one.