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Close to the hardware. It refers to writing software that drives the hardware directly without going through a software translation layer and its associated overhead. An operating system can provide both low- and high-level APIs, the high-level ones being capable of very elaborate processing. The low-level APIs make programmers do more work, but allows them access to hardware features. For example, Microsoft's DirectDraw and Direct3D APIs allow direct manipulation of the frame buffer in the display adapter.

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