
538 9 Chapter 26: Action! Games and Multimedia
The Macintosh computer has always been prominent in research~
particularly in biomedical research and in space. In large part, this
is because many research projects require scientists to combine com-
puter programming skills with other, domain-based skills. The Mac-
intosh has always provided advanced programming tools, and it
continues to do so with Mac OS X.
Managing the human interface devices that run games and scientific
experiments requires interacting with the basic hardware governed
by the kernel. This chapter shows you the highlights of the Human
Interface Device (HID) manager, ...