A . There was some discussion about what run-time A . P . I .'s [ application program interfaces ) Apple would support, whether they would support some of ours or some of Sun's.
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Their goal is to produce a working version of the Windows application program interface, or API, a set of routines and protocols for building software applications that can also work with other operating systems.
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Also, those with video cards and / or 3-D accelerators that are compatible with the OpenGL application program interface will be in 3-D heaven, with added touches of realism such as transparent windows and water.
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A suggested behavioral remedy is to force Microsoft to publish at one time the software hooks, or application program interfaces, to which rival software makers must write programs if they are to run on Windows.
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The SFMS provides application program interfaces ( APIs ), which can be used to integrate existing and future applications with the SFMS . Several banks have integrated it with their core or centralized banking software.
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Microsoft has long maintained that it does not withhold from rivals the technology inside Windows _ called application program interfaces, or APIs _ that other programs must have to run smoothly with the Microsoft operating system.
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Recent Microsoft products and application program interfaces use Unicode internally, but many applications and APIs continue to use the default encoding of the computer's " locale " when reading and writing text data to files or standard output.
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In the four months of settlement talks, Microsoft and the Justice Department prepared 19 proposals and counterproposals dealing with fine points of software in the technical parlance of " source code " and " application program interfaces ."
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It could require that Microsoft publish specifications for the Windows application program interfaces, or APIs, the operating-system code that rival software manufacturers must know if their products are to run on Windows as well as Microsoft's programs do.
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Instead, Wine restricts itself to mimicking Windows'applications program interfaces _ small program modules within Windows that provide the instructions to other programs for specific tasks like saving a file on disk or drawing an image on the computer screen.
