ReTargetable Graphics is a device driver API mainly used by 3rd party graphics hardware to interface with AmigaOS via a set of libraries.

The redesigned AIM for Mac is a full universal binary Cocoa API application that supports both Tiger and Leopard – Mac OS X 10. 4. 8 ( and above ) or Mac OS X 10. 5. 3 ( and above ).

Advanced power management ( APM ) is an API developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS ( part of the computer's firmware ) to achieve power management.

Berkeley DB is written in C with API bindings for C ++, PHP, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Smalltalk, and most other programming languages.

Three APIs are available — a Direct Persistence Layer which is " Plain Old Java Objects " ( POJO ); one which is based on the Java Collections Framework ( an object persistence approach ); and one based on the traditional Berkeley DB API.

A virtual printer is a piece of computer software whose user interface and API resembles that of a printer driver, but which is not connected with a physical computer printer.

As noted in different section, software is usually created on top of existing software and the application programming interface ( API ) that the underlying software provides like GTK +, JavaBeans or Swing.

When a program is designed, it relies on the API.

* The Solaris API for handling access control lists ( ACLs ) is supported and maps to the Windows NT ACL system.

* The fork system call for duplicating a process is fully implemented, but it does not map well to the Windows API.

MinGW is a native software port of the GNU Compiler Collection ( GCC ) to Microsoft Windows, along with a set of freely distributable import libraries and header files for the Windows API.

Direct3D ( the 3D graphics API within DirectX ) is widely used in the development of video games for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360 and some Sega Dreamcast games.

The public interface of a DOM is specified in its application programming interface ( API ).

* JAXP ( Java API for XML Processing ) is an API for accessing DOM providers

Drawing an ellipse as a graphics primitive is common in standard display libraries, such as the MacIntosh QuickDraw API, and Direct2D on Windows.

Freenet is modular and features an API called Freenet Client Protocol ( FCP ) for other programs to use to implement services such as message boards, file sharing, or online chat.

zlib is an abstraction of the DEFLATE algorithm in library form which includes support both for the gzip file format and a lightweight stream format in its API.

This driver acts as a wrapper for the proprietary Glide API, and thus is only compatible with 3dfx hardware.

A JVM is distributed along with a set of standard class libraries that implement the Java application programming interface ( API ).

Based on the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox, K-Meleon uses native Windows application programming interface ( API ) to create the user interface, instead of using Mozilla's cross-platform XML User Interface Language ( XUL ) layer, and as a result, is tightly integrated into the look and feel of the Windows desktop ; this approach is similar to that of Galeon and Epiphany ( for the GNOME desktop ), and Camino ( for Mac OS X ).

Increasing performance, reducing wear and fuel consumption is also aim of the later API, ACEA and car manufacturer oil specifications, so lubricant marketers can back their claims by doing extensive ( and expensive ) testing.

Windows includes similar functionality, so the Cygwin library just needed to provide a POSIX-compatible application programming interface ( API ) and properly translate calls and manage private versions of data, such as file descriptors.

* Open Data-Link Interface ( ODI ) – a network card API similar to NDIS

The sleep function or similar windows API were at no point designed for accurate timing purposes.

* Java's Java Remote Method Invocation ( Java RMI ) API provides similar functionality to standard Unix RPC methods.

A nonpreemptive multitasking system is very similar to the simple control loop scheme, except that the loop is hidden in an API.

It can be used as such as a web server scripting language when combined with the Corel Web Server Control OCX, which implements a server API similar to the CGI, and its standalone console, the Corel Web Server.

Using DDT requires less coding than to create a similar program using the Windows API.

Using this technique reduces flicker in a similar way to the technique of drawing on memory DCs when using the GDI API.

Pixel operations are possible using the GRAPHIC GET | SET PIXEL statements, in a manner similar to GetPixel / SetPixel of the GDI API.

Next to an API, Peecho provides an embeddable print button, very similar to a " Facebook Like ".

Although StarBasic itself is similar to other dialects of Basic, such as Microsoft's VBA, the application programming interface ( API ) is very different, as the example below of a macro illustrates.

With the advent of the OpenGL API and similar functionality in DirectX, GPUs added programmable shading to their capabilities.

Since Irrlicht does not support sound by itself, Ambiera has also developed irrKlang, an audio library with an API similar to Irrlicht.

A similar effort is with the actively evolving OpenMAMA project, which aims to provide a common API, particularly to C clients.

The default GUI is based on Qt 4 for Windows and Linux, Cocoa for Mac OS X, and Be API on BeOS ; but all give a similar standard interface.

Users attribute the apparent lack of interest from TransGaming on Cedega to their focus on Cider, a similar MS-Win32, Wine-based API layer for Mac OS X systems, supported by Electronics Arts to bring their Windows native games to Mac.

For example, PHP provides API to create a shared memory, similar to POSIX functions.

Dark GDK's API is very similar to that of DarkBASIC Professional, such that code can be very easily ported between C ++ code utilising Dark GDK and DarkBASIC Professional code.

The DI API Server is similar to DI API except it provides SOAP based protocol. UIAPI, which based on COM too, focus on SAP Business One User Interface.

Popular use for database abstraction layers are among object-oriented programming languages, which are similar to API level abstraction layers.

The API Statewide Rank score ranks a school with all schools in California based on API score, while the API Similar Schools score ranks a school with 100 other schools in the state with similar demographic profiles ( including parent education level, poverty level, student mobility, student ethnicity ).