- 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 metapackage that contains a distribution script. This type of installer package behaves as a distribution package when installed on computers running Mac OS X v10.4 and later. On computers running earlier versions of the operating system, a hybrid metapackage behaves as a regular metapackage. See also distribution package, metapackage.
Industry:Software; Computer
An entry in an array of edge offsets in source text at which it is appropriate to break a line of display text.
Industry:Software; Computer
Input/output. (1) The exchange of data between two parts of a computer system, usually between system memory and a peripheral device. (2) The software- or hardware-based audio inputs and outputs for a device.
Industry:Software; Computer
A dynamic database that maintains entries for all available drivers on a Darwin system. Driver matching searches the I/O catalogue to produce an initial list of candidate drivers.
Industry:Software; Computer
A kernel-resident, object-oriented environment in Darwin that provides a model of system hardware. Each type of service or device is represented by one or more C++ classes in a family; each available service or device is represented by an instance (object) of that class.
Industry:Software; Computer
The framework that includes IOKitLib and makes the I/O Registry, user client plug-ins, and other I/O Kit services available from user space. It lets applications and other user processes access common I/O Kit object types and services. See also framework
Industry:Software; Computer
A module used by the printing system to provide a way to communicate with a printer using a standard interface for a transport type.
Industry:Software; Computer
A dynamic database that describes a collection of driver objects, each of which represents an I/O Kit entity. As hardware is added to or removed from the system, the I/O Registry changes to accommodate the addition or removal.
Industry:Software; Computer
A button that does not have a rectangular edge around it; the clickable region is the graphic (for example, the toolbar buttons in System Preferences windows).
Industry:Software; Computer
A group of icons that share similar visual design characteristics used to designate a particular category of items.
Industry:Software; Computer
