- Industry: Computer; Software
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
A kernel implementing a minimal set of abstractions. Typically, higher-level OS services such as file systems and device drivers are implemented in layers above a microkernel, possibly in trusted user-mode servers. Mac OS X is a hybrid between microkernel and monolithic kernel architectures. See also monolithic kernel.
Industry:Software; Computer
The binding of modules, as a program executes, by the dynamic link editor (dyld). Usually the dynamic link editor binds modules into a program lazily (that is, as they are used). Thus modules not actually used during execution are never bound into the program.
Industry:Software; Computer
A menu item that changes when the user presses a modifier key. For example, in the Finder File menu, if the user presses the Option key, the Close Window command changes to Close All. See also toggled menu item.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, the reference form that specifies the middle object of a particular class in a container. This form is rarely used.
Industry:Software; Computer
A library whose code can be shared by multiple, concurrently running programs. Programs share exactly one physical copy of the library code and do not require their own copies of that code. With dynamic shared libraries, a program not only attempts to resolve all undefined symbols at runtime, but attempts to do so only when those symbols are referenced during program execution.
Industry:Software; Computer
A metapackage or distribution package installation that a user performs using the default option selection.
Industry:Software; Computer
European Broadcasting Union. A Europe-based, international, audio and broadcasting standards organization.
Industry:Software; Computer
Musical Instrument Digital Interface. A standard data protocol for communication between computers and electronic music instruments, first adopted in 1983 by the AES. Core Audio uses MIDI to communicate with instrument unit audio units. MIDI data describes musical events, such as the starting or stopping of a note. Pronounced “MID-ee.”
Industry:Software; Computer
A byte offset into the source text associated with a text layout object that specifies a position between byte values. Edge offsets in source text are related to caret positions in display text. Compare byte offset.
Industry:Software; Computer
