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Cross-platform is a term which can refer to computer programs, operating systems, computer languages, programming languages, or other computer software and their implementations which can be made to work on multiple computer platforms. For example, a cross-platform application may run on Microsoft Windows on the x86 architecture, Linux on the x86 architecture and Mac OS X on either the PowerPC based Apple Macintosh or the x86 based Apple Macintosh systems. A cross-platform application could run on all common platforms, or simply more than one. This type of software could also correctly be called multi-platform software.