Carbon API was an important part of Apple's strategy for bringing Mac OS X to market, offering a path for quick porting of existing software applications, as well as a means of shipping applications that would run on either Mac OS X or the classic Mac OS.
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Apple did not create a 64-bit version of Carbon while updating their other frameworks in the 2007 time-frame, and eventually deprecated the entire API in OS X 10.
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The Carbon API libraries are extensively cleaned up, modernized and better "protected".
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Carbon API was introduced in incomplete form in 2000, as a shared library backward-compatible with 1997's Mac OS 8.
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Carbon API was very widely used in early versions of Mac OS X by almost all major software houses, even by Apple.
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Carbon API descends from the Toolbox, and as such, is composed of "Managers".
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Each Manager is a functionally related Carbon API, defining sets of data structures and functions to manipulate them.
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Carbon API is compatible with all of the several executable formats available for PowerPC Mac OS.
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Newer parts of Carbon API tend to be much more object-oriented in their conception, most of them based on Core Foundation.
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Carbon API introduces a replacement system, called the Carbon API Event Manager.
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