- 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 family of high-speed local area network technologies at the physical layer of the OSI model.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) A constant that notifies an application that some action is occurring, or has occurred. (2) In AppleScript an action an object can respond to. For example, a button click is an event that may result in execution of a clicked handler for the button that was clicked. Compare SMB/CIFS. (3) In Interface Builder, a type of connection that is specific to iPhone applications. Events represent different phases of user interaction for a control. Each event connection can also have multiple assigned target objects, each with its own distinct action message.
Industry:Software; Computer
process identifier, see simple statement, a number for identifying a process, certain process
Industry:Software; Computer
In Quartz Composer, a patch that processes data at specified intervals or in response to changing input values.
Industry:Software; Computer
A fill rule that determines when to paint a pixel. The outcome does not depend on the direction that path segments are drawn. Compare nonzero winding number rule.
Industry:Software; Computer
In the Carbon Event Manager, an execution loop that obtains events from the Window Server and places them in an event queue. The event loop also fires timers.
Industry:Software; Computer
A combination of code and resources that can be run to perform some task. Programs need not have a graphical user interface, although graphical applications are also considered programs.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) A process that provides services to other processes (clients) in the same or other computers. In source control, a server is the process that modifies the repository. (2) A computer running Mac OS X Server.
Industry:Software; Computer
