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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 Carbon, the code loop where the application spends most of its time. The application is blocked while waiting for events. When an event occurs, the application processes it and then returns to the blocked state.
Industry:Software; Computer
A pointer to an opaque data structure that defines a window. All access to a window or its attributes is through the window reference.
Industry:Software; Computer
The transformation of ciphertext back into the original plaintext. Compare encryption. See also asymmetric keys, symmetric keys.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, a distributed build that is effective on large projects using ten or more build servers. See also distributed build. Compare shared workgroup build.
Industry:Software; Computer
In WebObjects, an option available to fetch specifications that causes database fetches to occur against the root table and any leaf tables. Applicable to inheritance hierarchies.
Industry:Software; Computer
The application selected by Launch Services, according to its own implicit binding rules, in which to open a given document or URL in the absence of an explicit binding preference set by the user.
Industry:Software; Computer
A special type of thread created when its owning process is created. When the main thread of a program exits, the process ends.
Industry:Software; Computer
A systemwide process that is responsible for rudimentary screen displays, window compositing and management, event routing, and cursor management. It coordinates low-level windowing behavior and enforces a fundamental uniformity in what appears on the screen.
Industry:Software; Computer
An asynchronous event that suspends the currently scheduled process and temporarily diverts the flow of control through an interrupt handler routine. Interrupts can be caused by both hardware (I/O, timer, machine check) and software (supervisor, system call, or trap instruction).
Industry:Software; Computer
