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> Mac OS specific APIs for video, 2D, 3D, networking ....

Which other platforms had/have non platform specific APIs for 2D and video?




X11 is crossplatform (not just to unix - my VMS box runs it)


X11 is a platform.


> X11 is a platform.

By that definition, POSIX libc is a platform. X11 is a standard with one flagship implementation (currently X.org, formerly XFree86) and multiple other implementations fewer people care about.


Most of them have, but nowadays I only see complains about Microsoft doing this.




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