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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.
In Quartz Composer, the main routine in a composition; the evaluation of a composition begins at the root macro patch. All patches are nested, at one level or another, within the root macro patch. Ports that you publish at the root macro patch are accessible externally.
Industry:Software; Computer
The primary file system off which a computer boots, so named because it includes the root node of the file-system tree.
Industry:Software; Computer
The user on a UNIX system with a UID of 0. A process running with an EUID of 0 is said to be running as root. The root user owns many of the primary system processes and has unlimited access to the file system objects on the devices attached to the computer. Also called the superuser.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Mach, a remote procedure call that returns a value. A routine can be used for synchronous or asynchronous operations. See also simpleroutine.
Industry:Software; Computer
Remote procedure call. An interface to IPC that appears (to the caller) as an ordinary function call. In Mach, RPCs are implemented using MIG-generated interface libraries and Mach messages.
Industry:Software; Computer
A system of public key cryptography, named for its inventors: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. The RSA algorithm takes two large prime numbers, finds their product, and then derives asymmetric keys from the prime numbers and their product. Because the public key includes the product, the private key could be derived from the public key if the product could be factored. No easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers is currently known, but it has not been mathematically proven that no such method is possible. Therefore, the discovery of a fast way to factor such numbers, or the development of quantum computers, would break RSA.
Industry:Software; Computer
Text usually used to provide annotations or indicate pronunciation for Asian languages. Ruby text is displayed using a smaller font size than the text it annotates.
Industry:Software; Computer
Real user ID. The UID inherited from the user or process that executes a process.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of attributes used to set security policies for applications and for the system. See also policy database.
Industry:Software; Computer
A sequence of glyphs that are contiguous in memory and share a set of common attributes. See also font run.
Industry:Software; Computer
