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===Operating systems===

An API can specify the interface between an application and the [[operating system]].<ref name="Oreilly91Oreilly19">{{cite book|last1=Lewine|first1=Donald A.|title=POSIX Programmer's Guide|date=19916119|publisher=O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.|page=1|url=ftp://gamma.sbin.org/pub/doc/books/OReilly_-_POSIX_Programmers_Guide.pdf|accessdate=2 August 2016}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yesno }}</ref> [[POSIX]], for examplexample, 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=88–1123201–112|url=http://www.joelwest.org/Papers/WestDedrick2001b.pdf|accessdate=2 August 2016}}</ref>

[[Microsoft]] has shown a strong commitment to a backward-compatible API, particularly within its [[Windows API]] (Win32) library, so older applications may run on newer versions of Windows using an executable-specific setting called "Compatibility Mode".<ref>

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===Remote APIs===