Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Macintosh Toolbox is a set of application programming interfaces with a particular access mechanism. They implement many of the high-level features of the \"classic\" Mac OS. The Toolbox consists of a number of \"managers,\" software components such as QuickDraw, responsible for drawing onscreen graphics, and the Menu Manager, which maintain data structures describing the menu bar. As the original Macintosh was designed without virtual memory or memory protection, it was important to classify code according to when it should be loaded into memory or kept on disk, and how it should be accessed. The Toolbox consists of subroutines essential enough to be permanently kept in memory and accessible by a two-byte machine instruction; however it excludes core \"kernel\" functionality such as memory management and the file system. Note that the Toolbox does not draw the menu onscreen: menus were designed to have a customizable appearance, so the drawing code was stored in a resource, which could be on a disk."@en }
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- Macintosh_Toolbox abstract "The Macintosh Toolbox is a set of application programming interfaces with a particular access mechanism. They implement many of the high-level features of the \"classic\" Mac OS. The Toolbox consists of a number of \"managers,\" software components such as QuickDraw, responsible for drawing onscreen graphics, and the Menu Manager, which maintain data structures describing the menu bar. As the original Macintosh was designed without virtual memory or memory protection, it was important to classify code according to when it should be loaded into memory or kept on disk, and how it should be accessed. The Toolbox consists of subroutines essential enough to be permanently kept in memory and accessible by a two-byte machine instruction; however it excludes core \"kernel\" functionality such as memory management and the file system. Note that the Toolbox does not draw the menu onscreen: menus were designed to have a customizable appearance, so the drawing code was stored in a resource, which could be on a disk.".