- 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.
16-bit Unicode Transformation Format. A form of Unicode in which 16-bits are used to encode a character.
Industry:Software; Computer
A user in the admin group. The user who instals Mac OS X is automatically assigned to the admin group. An administrator has fewer privileges than root, but more privileges than a normal user. An administrator cannot create, delete, or move files in the system domain.
Industry:Software; Computer
Software Development Kit. A complete set of header files and stub libraries as shipped in a particular version of Mac OS X.
Industry:Software; Computer
Set priority level macro. A macro that sets the current IPL. Interrupts with lower priority than the current IPL are not be acted upon until the IPL is lowered. spl macros have no effect in many parts of Mac OS X, so their use is discouraged as a means of synchronisation in new programming except when modifying code that already uses spl macros. See also IPL.
Industry:Software; Computer
An opaque object that contains information about an Ink phrase.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Mach, a specification of which task can send to or receive from a particular port.
Industry:Software; Computer
A text entry field combined with a drop-down scrolling list. Combo boxes are useful for displaying a list of likely choices while still allowing the user to type in an item not in the list.
Industry:Software; Computer
Universally Unique Identifier. A type of UID or GID that is unique across all systems and all networks.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Core Audio, the original version of the audio unit interface, deprecated in Mac OS X v10.2 and unsupported starting in Mac OS X v10.5. V1 audio units differ from V2 audio units in that they supported fan out, supported interleaved streams, and used a component type and subtype approach different from that of V2. New development should be done with the V2 audio unit interface. Compare V2.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, the period of time over which a variable or property is in existence.
Industry:Software; Computer
