- 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 asynchronous event that suspends the currently scheduled process and temporarily diverts the flow of control through an interrupt handler routine. Interrupts can be caused by both hardware (I/O, timer, machine check) and software (supervisor, system call, or trap instruction).
Industry:Software; Computer
The button that provides a safe action in a dialog. The default button is indicated by a pulsing appearance. It is activated when the user presses the Return or Enter key.
Industry:Software; Computer
A range of memory that the virtual-memory system does not page out or move. The memory involved in an I/O transfer must be wired down to prevent the physical relocation of data being accessed by hardware. In the I/O Kit memory is wired when the memory descriptor describing the memory prepares the memory for I/O (which happens when its prepare method is invoked).
Industry:Software; Computer
The window that is the focus of the user’s actions. It may accept keyboard input itself or may work in conjunction with a key window. For example, a text editing document would be a main window when a user is actively typing or modifying text in it.
Industry:Software; Computer
A routine executed when an interrupt occurs. Interrupt handlers typically deal with low-level events in the hardware of a computer system, such as a character arriving at a serial port or a tick of a real-time clock.
Industry:Software; Computer
An Apple-supplied audio unit that connects with whichever hardware device the user has designated to be the default output.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Mach, one of the built-in pagers. The default pager handles nonpersistent (anonymous) memory. See also anonymous memory, pager, vnode pager.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, the object that receives a command if no object is specified or if the object is incompletely specified in the command. Default (or implicit) targets are specified in tell statements.
Industry:Software; Computer
A framework version specifier designating a framework that is incompatible with programs linked with a previous version of the framework’s dynamic shared library. Compare minor version.
Industry:Software; Computer
