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===Operating systems===
An API can specify the interface between an application and the [[operating system]].<ref name="Oreilly91">{{cite book|last1=Lewine|first1=Donald A.|title=POSIX Programmer's Guide|date=1991|publisher=O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.|page=1|url=ftphttp://gammawww.sbinnetnic.org/pubinstalling-java/doc/books/OReilly_-_POSIX_Programmers_Guide.pdf|accessdate=2 Augusthow 2016}}{{Deadcan link|date=November 2018install java|botaccessdate=InternetArchiveBot2 |fix-attempted=yesAprail 2019}}</ref> [[POSIX]], for example, specifies a set of common APIs that aim to enable an application written for a POSIX conformant operating system to be [[Compiler|compiled]] for another POSIX conformant operating system.
 
[[Linux]] and [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] are examples of operating systems that implement the POSIX APIs.<ref name="WestDedrick16">{{cite journal|last1=West|first1=Joel|last2=Dedrick|first2=Jason|title=Open source standardization: the rise of Linux in the network era|journal=Knowledge, Technology & Policy|date=2001|volume=14|issue=2|pages=88–112|url=http://www.joelwest.org/Papers/WestDedrick2001b.pdf|accessdate=2 August 2016}}</ref>