- 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.
Portable document format. A file format created by Adobe Systems to represent documents in a manner independent of the software, hardware, and operating system. The format became an open standard in 2008.
Industry:Software; Computer
Matching of a query string to indexed terms, with the query string considered as a complete phrase. A match occurs when the exact query phrase appears in a document. Search Kit supports phrase searching in inverted and inverted-vector indexes. See also search.
Industry:Software; Computer
An address to which a hardware device, such as a memory chip, can directly respond. Programs, including the Mach kernel, use virtual addresses that are translated to physical addresses by mapping hardware controlled by the Mach kernel.
Industry:Software; Computer
Electronic circuitry contained in random-access memory (RAM) chips, used to temporarily hold information at execution time. Addresses in a process’s virtual memory are mapped to addresses in physical memory. See also virtual memory
Industry:Software; Computer
A command or data used for special processing by output devices, such as printer drivers. Picture comments are usually stored in the definition of a picture or are included in the drawing an application does when printing.
Industry:Software; Computer
The Image Kit picture taker class (IKPictureTaker ) that allows users to choose images by browsing the file system or by taking a snapshot with an iSight or other digital camera. The user term is picture taker.
Industry:Software; Computer
Process identifier. A number that uniquely identifies a process. Also called a process ID.
Industry:Software; Computer
Programmed input/output. A way to move data between a device and system memory in which each byte is transferred under control of the host processor. See also DMA.
Industry:Software; Computer
In general, a buffer that holds image information in main memory. In OpenGL, a type of drawable object that allows the use of offscreen buffers as sources for texturing. Pixel buffers allow hardware-accelerated rendering to a texture.
Industry:Software; Computer
