- 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 unrecoverable system failure in the kernel caused by an illegal instruction, memory access exception, or other failure rather than explicitly triggered as in a panic. Compare panic.
Industry:Software; Computer
A Mach port whose receive right is held by the kernel. See also task port, thread port.
Industry:Software; Computer
The protected memory partition in which the kernel resides. See also user space.
Industry:Software; Computer
An adjustment to the normal spacing that occurs between two or more specifically named glyphs, known as the kerning pair.
Industry:Software; Computer
Two specifically named glyphs that are kerned together by a set amount. See also kerning.
Industry:Software; Computer
Kernel extension. A dynamically loaded bundle that extends the functionality of the kernel. The I/O Kit, file system, and networking components of Darwin can be extended by KEXTs.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) An arbitrary value (usually a string) used to locate a piece of data in a data structure such as a dictionary. (2) In security, a piece of secret information required to decode an encrypted message. In modern cryptographic methods, it is usually a lengthy integer.
Industry:Software; Computer
A process by which the current keyboard script is compared to the script of the font at the current insertion point. If the two don’t match, one or the other is changed so the two scripts are the same. In most cases, when the user starts typing, the font is automatically replaced with one belonging to the keyboard script, although it is possible to synchronise in the other direction.
Industry:Software; Computer
The state in which a window or control receives keystrokes. Keyboard input is directed to one window (and one control within the window) at a time.
Industry:Software; Computer
A graphical representation of a physical key that doesn’t have a character equivalent (such as a function key or the Shift key).
Industry:Software; Computer
