Why cant a program written for the Mac-OS run on a Windows-OS equipped machine?

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"OS" stands for "Operating system". This does a lot of technical stuff, but its most important function is to translate strings of 1s and 0s into something that is actually intelligible to a user(and does the same in reverse when the user inputs data)

Now, most operating systems have their own "instructions"--made up of strings of 1s and 0s--that tell them what to do. However, Mac OS and Windows use different instructions--so if you try to run instructions for one on the other, the computer has no idea what you want it to do.

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