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Parent topics
- Apple Inc. [r]: US-based electronics company, maker of Macintosh computers and the iPod. [e]
- Apple Macintosh [r]: A personal computer that runs the Mac operating system (currently over BSD/UNIX), has a generally closed architecture, and is optimized for a consistent user interface. Developed in the early 1980s and released in 1984 by Apple Inc. (at the time known as Apple Computer). [e]
- Computer architecture [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operating system [r]: The main software of a computer system; controls the execution of applications and provides various services to them. [e]
Subtopics
- Darwin operating system [r]: The open source, Unix-like base operating system of the Mac OS X, which uses the Mach-based XNU kernel. [e]
- Cocoa (API) [r]: Apple's collection of object-orientated frameworks, APIs, and runtimes which make up the development layer of Mac OS X. [e]
- Coda (software) [r]: An OS X web development environment developed by Panic, Inc. [e]
Other related topics
- Berkeley Software Distribution [r]: Free Unix distribution created by the University of California at Berkeley. [e]
- Linux [r]: A free and open source operating system kernel designed by Linus Torvalds. The kernel is typically augmented by a plethora of other software, creating a Linux distribution. [e]
- Microsoft Windows [r]: The name of several families of closed source software operating systems, first released by Microsoft in 1985. [e]
- Serial Box [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Time Machine (software) [r]: A backup tool for Mac OS X. [e]
- Unix [r]: A computer operating system originally conceived and developed by a group of researchers as an unofficial project while they were working at AT&T's Bell Laboratories. [e]
