Carbon (late transitional API)
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Carbon (late transitional API) was Apple’s C-based application programming interface that allowed developers to modernize and run classic Mac OS applications on Mac OS X during the operating system’s transition period.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carbon API | 2 |
| Carbon (late transitional API) canonical | 1 |
| Carbon API layer | 1 |
| Carbon Appearance Manager | 1 |
| Carbon programming language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T299880 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Carbon (late transitional API) Context triple: [Classic Mac OS, api, Carbon (late transitional API)]
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B Reactor
B Reactor is the world’s first full-scale plutonium production reactor, built during the Manhattan Project at the Hanford Site in Washington State.
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F Reactor
F Reactor was one of the early plutonium production reactors at the Hanford Site in Washington, built during the Manhattan Project to support the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
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GLC
GLC is the National Rail station code for Glasgow Central, a major railway terminus in Glasgow, Scotland.
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H Reactor
H Reactor was one of the plutonium-producing nuclear reactors at the Hanford Site in Washington, built during the Cold War as part of the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
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COT
COT is the standard time observed in Colombia, corresponding to UTC−05:00 without daylight saving time.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Carbon (late transitional API) Target entity description: Carbon (late transitional API) was Apple’s C-based application programming interface that allowed developers to modernize and run classic Mac OS applications on Mac OS X during the operating system’s transition period.
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A.
B Reactor
B Reactor is the world’s first full-scale plutonium production reactor, built during the Manhattan Project at the Hanford Site in Washington State.
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B.
F Reactor
F Reactor was one of the early plutonium production reactors at the Hanford Site in Washington, built during the Manhattan Project to support the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
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C.
GLC
GLC is the National Rail station code for Glasgow Central, a major railway terminus in Glasgow, Scotland.
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D.
H Reactor
H Reactor was one of the plutonium-producing nuclear reactors at the Hanford Site in Washington, built during the Cold War as part of the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
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E.
COT
COT is the standard time observed in Colombia, corresponding to UTC−05:00 without daylight saving time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple technology
ⓘ
application programming interface ⓘ software development framework ⓘ |
| apiStyle | procedural C API ⓘ |
| basedOn | classic Mac OS APIs ⓘ |
| category |
Mac OS X development framework
ⓘ
Mac OS classic compatibility technology ⓘ |
| compatibilityLayerFor | classic Mac OS applications ⓘ |
| deprecationAnnouncedAt | Apple Worldwide Developers Conference ⓘ |
| designGoal | source-level compatibility between classic Mac OS and Mac OS X ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| documentationPublisher | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| doesNotSupport | 64-bit applications on Mac OS X ⓘ |
| encouragedMigrationTo |
macOS Cocoa
ⓘ
surface form:
Objective-C Cocoa APIs
|
| historicalRole | bridge between classic Mac OS and Mac OS X application models ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
NeXTSTEP Foundation Kit
ⓘ
surface form:
Core Foundation
OpenGL ⓘ
surface form:
OpenGL on Mac OS X
QuickTime ⓘ |
| introducedWith |
Mac OS 8
ⓘ
surface form:
Mac OS 8.1
|
| notableLimitation | no 64-bit GUI support on Mac OS X ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
macOS
ⓘ
surface form:
Mac OS X
Classic Mac OS ⓘ
surface form:
classic Mac OS
|
| partOf | Mac OS X transition technologies ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| provides |
QuickDraw-based graphics APIs
ⓘ
event handling APIs ⓘ file system APIs ⓘ menu management APIs ⓘ window management APIs ⓘ |
| purpose |
to allow classic Mac OS applications to run on Mac OS X
ⓘ
to help developers modernize classic Mac OS applications ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Classic Environment
ⓘ
macOS Cocoa ⓘ
surface form:
Cocoa (API)
Mac OS X transition technologies ⓘ
surface form:
Mac OS X transition period
|
| replacedBy |
macOS Cocoa
ⓘ
surface form:
Cocoa (API)
|
| status |
deprecated
ⓘ
discontinued ⓘ |
| supports |
32-bit applications
ⓘ
preemptive multitasking on Mac OS X ⓘ protected memory on Mac OS X ⓘ |
| targetPlatform |
Apple Macintosh computers
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surface form:
Intel-based Macintosh computers
PowerPC Macintosh computers ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Mac OS 8
ⓘ
Mac OS 9 ⓘ macOS ⓘ
surface form:
Mac OS X
|
| uses | Pascal-style function naming conventions in many APIs ⓘ |
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Subject: Carbon (late transitional API) Description of subject: Carbon (late transitional API) was Apple’s C-based application programming interface that allowed developers to modernize and run classic Mac OS applications on Mac OS X during the operating system’s transition period.
Referenced by (6)
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