From a more low-level programming perspective as inspired by C code and kin, the use of directly shared resources makes more sense, and can be argued to have performance benefits.

Sure enough, in just six days, Atkinson had created a specialized version of Pascal, a high-level programming language made especially for the Apple II. According to Isaacson, “Jobs respected ...

Device drivers represent a specific type of programming at this level. Typically, they interface with both the operating system (OS) and the hardware to give application-level programs access to ...