- 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 certificate that can be verified without recourse to another certificate. Rather than being signed by a further certification authority (CA), a root certificate is verified using the widely available public key of the CA that issued the root certificate. Compare anchor certificate.
Industry:Software; Computer
An invisible control within which all other controls for window are embedded.
Industry:Software; Computer
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
