MacsBug is a low-level (assembly language/machine-level) debugger for the classic Mac OS operating system. MacsBug is an acronym for Motorola Advanced...
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Mac operating systems were developed by Apple Inc. in a succession of two major series. In 1984, Apple debuted the operating system that is now known...
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Mac OS 8 is the eighth major release of the classic Mac OS operating system for Macintosh computers, released by Apple Computer on July 26, 1997. It includes...
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versions of Mac OS 9 up to Mac OS 9.2.2. Updates to Mac OS 9 include 9.0.4, 9.1, 9.2.1, and 9.2.2. Mac OS 9.0.4 was a collection of bug fixes primarily...
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Monaco (typeface) (category MacOS)
the ROMs of even New World Macs, and is still available in recent macOS releases (size 9, with disabled antialiasing). MacsBug uses a modification of bitmap...
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the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops, and the iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro desktops. Macs are currently sold with Apple's UNIX-based macOS...
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Macintosh startup (redirect from Sad Mac and Happy Mac)
The Macintosh startup sequence for Apple Macintosh (or Mac) computers includes hardware tests and diagnostics which can trigger the startup chimes and/or...
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Bomb (icon) (section Mac OS)
application's heap was corrupt, it could be thrown away. The debugger program MacsBug was sometimes used even by end users to provide basic (though not always...
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LLDB - A multi-platform debugger from the LLVM Project MacsBug — a debugger for the classic Mac OS Memcheck — a Valgrind-based memory debugger Modular...
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Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (category Classic Mac OS-only software made by Apple Inc.)
Strandberg (Rez, DeRez, RezDet), Steve Hartwell (C libraries), and Dan Allen (MacsBug, editor). The Apple Numerics Group also contributed math libraries. MPW...
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program code using a debugger such as x64dbg, SoftICE, OllyDbg, GDB, or MacsBug until the software cracker reaches the subroutine that contains the primary...
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Finder (software) (redirect from Finder (Mac OS))
was rewritten completely with the release of Mac OS X in 2001. In a tradition dating back to the Classic Mac OS of the 1980s and 1990s, the Finder icon...
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Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers...
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memory (in order to better secure the system). Interrupt Context switch MacsBug Torres, Gabriel (January 2, 2013). "Inside the Macintosh Plus". Hardware...
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Keychain (software) (redirect from Keychain (Mac OS))
Initially, he withheld details of the hack, demanding Apple set up a bug bounty for macOS. Apple had however not done so when Henze subsequently revealed...
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HFS Plus (redirect from Mac OS Extended)
HFS Plus or HFS+ (also known as Mac OS Extended or HFS Extended) is a journaling file system developed by Apple Inc. It replaced the Hierarchical File...
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Resource fork (redirect from Mac Type Code)
A resource fork is a fork of a file on Apple's classic Mac OS operating system that is used to store structured data. It is one of the two forks of a...
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System Settings (redirect from Control panel (Mac OS))
first version of Mac OS X to replace the control panels found in earlier versions of the Mac operating system. Before the release of Mac OS X in 2001, users...
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Dogcow (category Classic Mac OS)
image designed by Apple for the demonstration of page layout in the classic Mac OS. The sound it makes is "Moof!", a portmanteau of "moo" and "woof". Clarus...
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versions of its computer OS releases. However, in 2020 it was replaced in macOS Big Sur. During the development of System 7, the two companies concluded...
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Historically, the classic Mac OS used a form of memory management that has fallen out of favor in modern systems. Criticism of this approach was one of...
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Control key and the Command key on a typical Mac keyboard. There are two Option keys on modern (as of 2020) Mac desktop and notebook keyboards, one on each...
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New World ROM (redirect from New World Mac)
immediately hand control over to the Mac OS ROM. Because of this, versions 1.0.5 and 2.x had several serious bugs, as well as missing functionality (such...
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Apple changed the keys on the IIGS's keyboard to Command and Option, as on Mac keyboards, but added an open-Apple to the Command key, for consistency with...
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MultiFinder (category Classic Mac OS-only software made by Apple Inc.)
MultiFinder is an extension for the Apple Macintosh's classic Mac OS, introduced on August 11, 1987 and included with System Software 5. It adds cooperative...
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Stickies (Apple) (redirect from Stickies (macOS))
employment. During the transition to Mac OS X in 2001, Stickies was rewritten in Cocoa, and is still included in macOS, with features such as transparent...
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System 1 (redirect from Special menu (Mac OS))
The Macintosh "System 1" is the first major release of the classic Mac OS operating system. It was developed for the Motorola 68000 microprocessor. System...
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collection of messaging-related technologies introduced for the Classic Mac OS in the early 1990s. It includes the PowerTalk mail engine, which is the...
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