Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Microsoft DirectX tarin tarin aikace-aikacen shirye-shiryen aikace-aikace ne (APIs) don kula da ayyukan da suka shafi multimedia, musamman shirye-shiryen wasa da bidiyo, akan dandamali na Microsoft. Asali, sunayen waɗannan APIs duk sun fara da Direct, kamar Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound, da sauransu. Sunan DirectX an ƙirƙira shi azaman gajeriyar kalma don duk waɗannan APIs (X yana tsaye a cikin takamaiman sunayen API) kuma ba da daɗewa ba ya zama sunan tarin. Lokacin da Microsoft daga baya ya fara haɓaka na'urar wasan bidiyo, an yi amfani da X a matsayin tushen sunan Xbox don nuna cewa na'urar wasan tana dogara ne akan fasahar DirectX. An gabatar da farkon X a cikin sunan APIs da aka tsara don Xbox kamar XInput da Cross-platform Audio Creation Tool (XACT), yayin da aka ci gaba da tsarin DirectX don Windows APIs kamar Direct2D da DirectWrite.  Tambaya: A waɗanne dandamali ake amfani da waɗannan APIs?
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