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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">System routines for Classic Mac OS</div> <p>The <b>Macintosh Toolbox</b> implements many of the high-level features of the <a href="/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS" title="Classic Mac OS">Classic Mac OS</a>, including a set of <a href="/wiki/Application_programming_interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Application programming interface">application programming interfaces</a> for software development on the platform. The Toolbox consists of a number of "managers," software components such as <a href="/wiki/QuickDraw" title="QuickDraw">QuickDraw</a>, responsible for drawing onscreen graphics, and the Menu Manager, which maintain data structures describing the menu bar. As the <a href="/wiki/Macintosh_128K" title="Macintosh 128K">original Macintosh</a> was designed without <a href="/wiki/Virtual_memory" title="Virtual memory">virtual memory</a> or <a href="/wiki/Memory_protection" title="Memory protection">memory protection</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Instruction_set" class="mw-redirect" title="Instruction set">machine instruction</a>; however it excludes core "kernel" functionality such as <a href="/wiki/Memory_management" title="Memory management">memory management</a> and the <a href="/wiki/File_system" title="File system">file system</a>. Note that the Toolbox does not <i>draw</i> the menu onscreen: menus were designed to have a customizable appearance, so the drawing code was stored in a <a href="/wiki/Resource_fork" title="Resource fork">resource</a>, which could be on a disk. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Advent_and_implementation">Advent and implementation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Macintosh_Toolbox&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Advent and implementation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_68k_systems">On 68k systems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Macintosh_Toolbox&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: On 68k systems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The original <a href="/wiki/Motorola_68000_family" class="mw-redirect" title="Motorola 68000 family">Motorola 68000 family</a> implementation of the Macintosh operating system executes <a href="/wiki/System_calls" class="mw-redirect" title="System calls">system calls</a> using that processor's <a href="/wiki/Illegal_opcode" title="Illegal opcode">illegal opcode</a> <a href="/wiki/Interrupt" title="Interrupt">exception handling</a> mechanism. Motorola specified that instructions beginning with <i>1111</i> and <i>1010</i> would never be used in future 68000 family processors, thus freeing them for use as such by an operating system. Further, they each had their own dedicated <a href="/wiki/Interrupt_vector" class="mw-redirect" title="Interrupt vector">interrupt vector</a>, separate from the generic illegal opcode handler. As <i>1111</i> was reserved for use by <i>co</i>-processors such as the <a href="/wiki/68881" class="mw-redirect" title="68881">68881</a> <a href="/wiki/Floating_point_unit" class="mw-redirect" title="Floating point unit">FPU</a>, Apple chose <i>1010</i> (<i>A</i> in <a href="/wiki/Hexadecimal" title="Hexadecimal">hexadecimal</a>) as the prefix for operating system calls. Handling illegal instructions is known as <i>trapping</i>, so these special instructions were called <i>A-traps</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the processor encounters such an instruction, it transfers control to the operating system, which looks up the appropriate task and performs it. There were two advantages to this mechanism: </p> <ul><li>It results in compact programs. Only two <a href="/wiki/Byte" title="Byte">bytes</a> are taken by every operating system access, in contrast to four or six when using regular <a href="/wiki/Jump_instruction" class="mw-redirect" title="Jump instruction">jump instructions</a>.</li> <li>The table used to look up the appropriate function is stored in RAM. Then, even if the underlying code was stored in ROM, it could still be overridden (<i><a href="/wiki/Patch_(computing)" title="Patch (computing)">patched</a></i>) by replacing the ROM <a href="/wiki/Memory_address" title="Memory address">memory address</a> with a RAM address.</li></ul> <p>The system was further optimized by allotting some bits of the A-trap instruction to store <a href="/wiki/Parameter_(computer_science)" class="mw-redirect" title="Parameter (computer science)">parameters</a> to the most common functions. For example, <a href="/wiki/Memory_allocation" class="mw-redirect" title="Memory allocation">memory allocation</a> is a very common task, so it should be expressed in as few bytes of code as possible. Sometimes the programmer wants to clear the memory block to zeros, so either the allocation function should take a <a href="/wiki/Boolean_data_type" title="Boolean data type">boolean</a> parameter, or there should be two allocation functions. To pass a parameter would require an additional two-byte instruction, which would be inefficient. Having two functions would require at least an extra four bytes of RAM used for the address in the function look-up table. The most efficient solution is to map multiple A-traps to the same subroutine, which then uses the A-trap as a parameter. This is true of the most commonly used subroutines. However, the Toolbox was composed of the <i>less</i> commonly used subroutines. The Toolbox was defined as the set of subroutines which took no parameters within the A-trap, and were indexed from a 1024-entry, 4-kilobyte <a href="/wiki/Dispatch_table" title="Dispatch table">dispatch table</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Machines shipped with less than one megabyte of RAM use a single table of 512 entries, which corresponds to the 256-entry OS dispatch table of later ROM revisions.<sup id="cite_ref-macalmanac_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-macalmanac-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_PowerPC_systems">On PowerPC systems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Macintosh_Toolbox&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: On PowerPC systems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1994, Apple released Macintoshes using the <a href="/wiki/PowerPC" title="PowerPC">PowerPC</a> architecture, which lacked hardware support for the A-trap mechanism available on 68k systems. Because of their use in applying software patches, however, the dispatch tables were retained. The API library code underlying any Toolbox routine then does nothing except reference the dispatch table. The dispatch table linked only to emulated 68000 family code. Toolbox functions implemented in native PowerPC code have to first disable the emulator using the Mixed Mode Manager. For the sake of uniformity and extensibility, new function entries even continued to be added to the Toolbox after the PowerPC transition. </p><p>An alternative mechanism did exist, however, in the Code Fragment Manager, which was used to load and dynamically link native PowerPC programs. The PowerPC system call facility, analogous to the A-trap mechanism, was used to interface with the <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_nanokernel" title="Mac OS nanokernel">Mac OS nanokernel</a>, which offered few services directly useful to applications. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Functionality">Functionality</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Macintosh_Toolbox&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Functionality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Programming_interfaces">Programming interfaces</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Macintosh_Toolbox&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Programming interfaces"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Toolbox is composed of commonly used functions, but not the <i>most</i> commonly used functions. As a result, it grew into a hodgepodge of different API <a href="/wiki/Library_(computing)" title="Library (computing)">libraries</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-macalmanac_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-macalmanac-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Toolbox encompasses most of the basic functionality which distinguished the Classic Mac OS. Apple's references “Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials” and “Inside Macintosh: More Macintosh Toolbox”, similarly vague in scope, also document most of the Toolbox. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Use_in_booting">Use in booting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Macintosh_Toolbox&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Use in booting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Because much of the Toolbox is implemented in ROM, alongside the computer's <a href="/wiki/Firmware" title="Firmware">firmware</a>, it was convenient to use as a <a href="/wiki/Bootloader" title="Bootloader">bootloader</a> environment. In conjunction with <a href="/wiki/Resource_(Macintosh)" class="mw-redirect" title="Resource (Macintosh)">resources</a> stored on the ROM chip, the Toolbox can turn the screen gray, show a dialog box with the signature "Welcome to Macintosh" greeting, and display the mouse cursor. By using Toolbox to help boot the machine, a rudimentary Mac-like environment can be initialized before ever loading the <a href="/wiki/System_suitcase" title="System suitcase">System suitcase</a> from disk (in fact before ROMs on NuBus cards were executed), which is when the decision to use 24-bit or 32-bit addressing has to be made. (System 7's support for 32-bit addressing requires <a href="/wiki/32-bit_clean" class="mw-redirect" title="32-bit clean">32-bit clean</a> ROMs, as older Mac ROMs do not have support for this). The need for diagnostics as in the <a href="/wiki/BIOS" title="BIOS">BIOS</a> resident for <a href="/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM PC compatible">IBM PC compatibles</a>' boards is not necessary since the Macintosh has most of its diagnostics in <a href="/wiki/Power-on_self-test" title="Power-on self-test">POST</a> and automatically reports errors via the "<a href="/wiki/Sad_Mac" class="mw-redirect" title="Sad Mac">Sad Mac</a>" codes. </p><p>The similarity between the boot-up environment and the actual operating system should not be confused with being identical, however. Although the "Classic Mac OS" boot process is convoluted and largely undocumented, it is not more limited than an <a href="/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM PC compatible">IBM PC compatible</a> BIOS. Like a PC's <a href="/wiki/Master_boot_record" title="Master boot record">master boot record</a>, a ROM-based Mac reads and executes code from the first blocks ("boot blocks") of the <a href="/wiki/Disk_partition" class="mw-redirect" title="Disk partition">disk partition</a> selected as the <a href="/wiki/Boot_device" class="mw-redirect" title="Boot device">boot device</a>. The boot blocks then verify that a suitable rudimentary environment exists, and use it to load the System suitcase. A different operating system with a different <a href="/wiki/File_system" title="File system">file system</a> can boot by simply using its own code in the boot blocks.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This system was not used for PowerPC Linux, however, because <a href="/wiki/Open_Firmware" title="Open Firmware">Open Firmware</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_World_ROM" title="New World ROM">New World ROM</a> machines requires a bootloader within an HFS filesystem—a reason having nothing to do with the Toolbox or "old-fashioned" Macs in general. More narrowly, the Startup Disk control panel in the Classic Mac OS and later macOS only allows the user to select a mounted filesystem with very particular constraints. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Macintosh_Toolbox&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">Mac OS X</a>, the Toolbox is not used at all, though the <a href="/wiki/Classic_Environment" class="mw-redirect" title="Classic Environment">Classic Environment</a> loads the Toolbox ROM file into its virtual machine. Much of the Toolbox was restructured and implemented as part of Apple's <a href="/wiki/Carbon_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbon (computing)">Carbon</a> programming API, allowing programmers familiar with the Toolbox to <a href="/wiki/Porting" title="Porting">port</a> their program code more easily to Mac OS X. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Macintosh_Toolbox&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_memory_management" class="mw-redirect" title="Mac OS memory management">Mac OS memory management</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Macintosh_Toolbox&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFApple_Inc.1996" class="citation web cs1">Apple Inc. (6 July 1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040702054254/http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/OSUtilities/OSUtilities-170.html#HEADING170-48">"A-Line Instructions"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/OSUtilities/OSUtilities-170.html#HEADING170-48">the original</a> on 2004-07-02.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=A-Line+Instructions&rft.date=1996-07-06&rft.au=Apple+Inc.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.apple.com%2Fdocumentation%2Fmac%2FOSUtilities%2FOSUtilities-170.html%23HEADING170-48&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMacintosh+Toolbox" class="Z3988"></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/OSUtilities/OSUtilities-170.html#HEADING170-48">Alt URL</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFApple_Inc.1996" class="citation web cs1">Apple Inc. (6 July 1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040702054254/http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/OSUtilities/OSUtilities-170.html">"About the Trap Manager"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/OSUtilities/OSUtilities-170.html">the original</a> on 2004-07-02.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=About+the+Trap+Manager&rft.date=1996-07-06&rft.au=Apple+Inc.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.apple.com%2Fdocumentation%2Fmac%2FOSUtilities%2FOSUtilities-170.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMacintosh+Toolbox" class="Z3988"></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/OSUtilities/OSUtilities-170.html">Alt URL</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-macalmanac-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-macalmanac_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-macalmanac_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOlson1997" class="citation web cs1">Olson, James H. 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hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Object_Pascal" title="Object Pascal">Object Pascal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MacApp" title="MacApp">MacApp</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Objective-C" title="Objective-C">Objective-C</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)" title="Swift (programming language)">Swift</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cocoa_(API)" title="Cocoa (API)">Cocoa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cocoa_Touch" class="mw-redirect" title="Cocoa Touch">Cocoa Touch</a></li></ul> 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">On <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure" title="Common Language Infrastructure">CLI</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Windows_Forms" title="Windows Forms">Windows Forms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_Language" title="Extensible Application Markup Language">XAML</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation" title="Windows Presentation Foundation">Windows Presentation Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windows_UI_Library" title="Windows UI 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href="/wiki/Object_Pascal" title="Object Pascal">Object Pascal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Visual_Component_Library" title="Visual Component Library">Visual Component Library</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">On <a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a>,<br />under <a href="/wiki/X_Window_System" title="X Window System">X11</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/X_Athena_Widgets" title="X Athena Widgets">Athena (Xaw)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LessTif" title="LessTif">LessTif</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motif_(software)" title="Motif (software)">Motif</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OLIT" title="OLIT">OLIT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/XForms_(toolkit)" title="XForms 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