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File extension BOM - Apple Mac OS X Bill of Materials file
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What is BOM file extension:
The BOM file suffix is associated with the Apple Mac OS X operating system. File is created by Mac OS X Installer.
The Mac OS X Installer uses a file system "bill of materials" to determine which files to install, remove, or upgrade. A bill of materials, bom, contains all the files within a directory, along with some information about each file. File information includes: the file's UNIX permissions, its owner and group, its size, its time of last modification, and so on. Also included are a checksum of each file and information about hard links.
Mac OS X's bill of materials format is not compatible with formats from older operating systems.
The bill of materials file appeared in NeXTSTEP to support installation. The file format was updated and extended for Mac OS X 10.0. The format was extended to support 64 bit file sizes with OS X 10.3.
The default software that works with bom file format:
Company or developer:
Apple, Inc.
Mac OS X is Unix-based operating system developed by Apple Inc. for Macintosh computers. The first public beta release was introduced on 13th September 2000. Since version 10.4. ,Tiger Mac OS X also supports Intel-based Mac computers. Version 10.5. Tiger is the last version of Mac OS X that supports PowerPC Macs.
The latest official version 10.7, codenamed Lion, was released on July 20, 2011 and it is available to download from Apple Mac App Store. In the first day of Lion release, more than one million copies were downloaded from Mac App Store.
Apple Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview was released in February 2012. The stable release of Mountain Lion will be available in summer 2012.
Mac OS X also contains basic core applications for everyday use, such as Finder basic file manager, Safari for Internet browsing, QuickTime for video, iTunes for audio and management of iOS devices, iChat instant messaging, Mail, AdressBook, iCal calendar and many more.
Company or developer:
Apple, Inc.
Apple Xcode is IDE (integrated development environment) used to create applications for Mac OS X and iOS. Applications are programmed in Objective-C programming language. Xcode is available for Mac OS X.
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