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The original Mac OS used Pascal as its primary development platform, and the APIs were heavily based on Pascal's call semantics.Much of the Macintosh Toolbox consisted of procedure calls, passing information back and forth between the API and program using a variety of data structures based on Pascal's variant record concept.
Lina, which runs some Linux binaries on Windows, Mac OS X and Unix-like systems with native look and feel. KernelEX, which runs some Windows 2000/XP programs on Windows 98/Me. Executor, which runs 68k-based "classic" Mac OS programs in Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Anbox, an Android compatibility layer for Linux.
Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) is a deprecated application programming interface (API) for web browser plugins, initially developed for Netscape Navigator 2.0 in 1995 and subsequently adopted by other browsers. In the NPAPI architecture, a plugin declares content types (e.g. "audio/mp3") that it can handle. When the ...
Homebrew is a free and open-source software package management system that simplifies the installation of software on Apple's operating system, macOS, as well as Linux.The name is intended to suggest the idea of building software on the Mac depending on the user's taste.
macOS Ventura supports Macs with Apple silicon and Intel's Xeon-W and 7th-generation Kaby Lake chips or later, and drops support for Macs released from 2015 to 2016, officially marking the end of support for the Retina MacBook Pro, 2015-2017 MacBook Air, 2014 Mac Mini, 2015 iMac and cylindrical Mac Pro. The 21.5 inch 2017 iMac is the only ...
For another example, Mac OS X on the PowerPC had the ability to run Mac OS 9 and earlier application software through Classic—but this did not make Mac OS X a binary compatible OS with Mac OS 9. Instead, the Classic environment was actually running Mac OS 9.1 in a virtual machine, running as a normal process inside of Mac OS X. [1] [2]
Darling is a free and open-source macOS compatibility layer for Linux. [1] It duplicates functions of macOS by providing alternative implementations of the libraries and frameworks that macOS programs call. [2] This method of duplication differs from other methods that might also be considered emulation, [3] where macOS programs run in a ...
Cocoa is Apple's native object-oriented application programming interface (API) for its desktop operating system macOS.. Cocoa consists of the Foundation Kit, Application Kit, and Core Data frameworks, as included by the Cocoa.h header file, and the libraries and frameworks included by those, such as the C standard library and the Objective-C runtime.