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Meta already appears to hold the rights to 'X.' It could make Twitter's rebrand complicated. (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] moose@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The X in DirectX is a placeholder, because it’s a suite of APIs.

DirectShow, DirectSound, DirectMusic, Direct3D, ect.

Its like “Direct____”

[–] wyrmroot@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I never put that together!