- 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.
An Apple-supplied audio unit that connects with whichever hardware device the user has designated to be the system output.
Industry:Software; Computer
A condition that must be met by the computer (and associated operating system) in order for an installation to proceed.
Industry:Software; Computer
An application that has a portion of its features restricted to specific users because of the BSD permissions system.
Industry:Software; Computer
The primary script system used by the operating system, such as in dialogs and menu bars. The system script affects system defaults, such as the system font, line direction, and text-formatting rules. All other scripts are secondary to the system script.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In Xcode, the instructions for building a finished product from a set of files in a project—for example, a framework, library, application, or command-line tool. Each target builds a single product. (2) In AppleScript, the recipient of a command. Potential targets include application objects, script objects (including the current script), and the current application.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) A quantity of work to be performed. (2) A Mach abstraction consisting of a virtual address space and a port name space. A task itself performs no computation; rather, it is the context in which threads run. See also process, thread.
Industry:Software; Computer
A kernel port that represents a task and is used to manipulate that task. See also kernel port, thread port.
Industry:Software; Computer
Time division multiplexing. A method of combining multiple digital signals in a single data stream by sound field samples of each signal in time. For example, to carry a stereo signal on a single stream, the stream contains alternating samples of the left and right channels: L R L R L R.
Industry:Software; Computer
A shared library extension that provides the services for general and algorithmic encoding conversions or multi-encoding streams. The Text Encoding Converter sometimes uses Unicode Utilities.
Industry:Software; Computer
In information retrieval systems, the selective copying of terms from one or more documents into an index. See also stemming, stopword.
Industry:Software; Computer
