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blue box
blue boxn. An electronic device equipped with a tone pulsator that was formerly used to place free, illicit long-distance telephone calls by mimicking the tones sounded when operators routed such calls.blue box n Canadian a blue plastic container for domestic refuse that is to be collected and recycled Blue Box
Blue Box (operating system)The complete implementation of the Mac OSrun-time environment on the more modern Rhapsody operatingsystem. Blue Box is not an emulation layer; at any giventime it will be based on the same source code and ROM image asthe current version of Mac OS and will thus incorporate futureMac OS improvements.Blue BoxA programming interface (API) for Apple's Rhapsody operating system, which later became Mac OS X. The Blue Box was the Mac Toolbox API, which enabled a Mac OS 9 or previous Mac application to run without modification. The Blue Box was renamed Classic in OS X. See Mac OS X, Classic Environment and Yellow Box.MedicalSeeclassicAcronymsSeeBB |