What does the message ``Bad CPU type in executable'' mean in terminal window?

All the time I have been using TEX on my computer to handle mathematical symbols.
I have several macintosh machines.
Usually I used tex on the terminal (rather than texshop or texwork).
Quite recently when  I input ``platex filename.tex,’’
I received the message ``Bad CPU type in executable.’’
On another machine, I receive the message which says “platex” failed:  the
PowerPC architecture is no longer supported.
I have no idea why this happens.
Will anyone help me?
It occured when I typed ``platex foo.tex,'' in an attempt to compile a tex file.

PowerPC architecture is no longer supported.
This mean you have an old executable that was compiled for a Power PC Mac (the ones before they got the Intel chips). On systems running 10.6 (Snow Leopard) there was  code called Rosetta that was able to run the PPC code on the Intel CPU, That went away in 10.7
Sounds like you recently upgraded to 10.8 from 10.6 or earlier and copied the binary to the new OS.
If you compiled the code yourself you need to recompile it for the new OS. If you installed the binary you need to go to the site you got the binary from and see if there is a newer version for Intel Macs.

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