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Damian Yerrick wrote:

> > The graphics support VESA and some of the routines
> > include drawing sprites with rotation, scaling and
> > translucency and has several texture-mapping routines.
> >
> > All in all it's like DirectX for DOS.
>
> No. It's a platform.
> The US Department of Justice defines a platform as a set of
> APIs that meets certain criteria.
> DOS is a platform. Windows is a platform.
> Linux is a platform. Unix + X is a platform.
> BeOS is a platform. Mac OS is a platform.
> Allegro is a platform too; when combined with a libc, it
> meets all the DOJ's requirements EXCEPT networking.

DOS doesn't support networking...


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