How did APIs and device drivers work together? Specifically in the case of GPUs

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How did APIs and device drivers work together? Specifically in the case of GPUs

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APIs are like rules for how programs can talk to devices like GPUs. Device drivers are like translators that help programs communicate with specific devices using those rules. So, when a program wants to use a GPU to draw something, it talks to the device driver, which then tells the GPU what to do based on the rules set by the API.

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