From: "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk>
Subject: Re: AdaOS
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:26:50 -0000
Date: 2001-11-06T17:26:50+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9s994b$11sv9j$2@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3BE81B26.285928FC@san.rr.com
Your enlightenment is appreciated, but I'm sorry, I'm afraid it sounds a bit
like someone trying to sell me a pair of boots that will do all the walking
for me. I suspect HALs are an RAI (Redundant Academic Invention).
:-)
--
Nick Roberts
"Darren New" <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3BE81B26.285928FC@san.rr.com...
> Nick Roberts wrote:
> > Ah, yes, of course! We don't have device drivers any more, we have
"Hardware
> > Abstraction Layers".
>
> I think the HAL is how the device drivers get to the hardware. It
> abstracts (for example) the stuff you need to abstract before you're
> done booting, it abstracts the mechanism for figuring out how to do task
> switching, it abstracts the stuff for dealing with the motherboard so
> you can tell what device drivers you need to load, and so on. It's a
> layer below the device drivers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-06 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-25 9:10 AdaOS Franz Huber
2001-10-25 11:35 ` AdaOS Alfred Hilscher
2001-10-28 1:44 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-10-29 16:40 ` AdaOS Tony Gair
2001-10-29 16:50 ` AdaOS Preben Randhol
2001-10-29 17:02 ` AdaOS Franz Huber
2001-10-31 8:54 ` AdaOS Tony Gair
2001-11-04 17:32 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-05 0:59 ` AdaOS David Starner
2001-11-05 18:15 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-05 12:50 ` AdaOS Franz Huber
2001-11-05 18:11 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-05 23:12 ` AdaOS Marin David Condic
2001-11-06 15:38 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-06 17:17 ` AdaOS Darren New
2001-11-06 17:26 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2001-11-06 20:37 ` AdaOS Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-06 22:28 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-06 22:47 ` HAL (was AdaOS) Hans-Olof Danielsson
2001-11-07 7:22 ` tmoran
2001-11-07 22:11 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2001-11-07 2:28 ` AdaOS Philip Cummins
2001-11-07 22:30 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-08 18:49 ` AdaOS Marin David Condic
2001-11-08 22:02 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-09 16:06 ` AdaOS Ted Dennison
2001-11-09 23:30 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-12 18:50 ` AdaOS Mats Karlssohn
2001-11-12 20:03 ` AdaOS Ted Dennison
2001-11-12 20:29 ` AdaOS Marin David Condic
2001-11-12 22:25 ` AdaOS Ted Dennison
2001-11-17 18:40 ` AdaOS Brian Catlin
2001-11-17 22:49 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-19 16:53 ` AdaOS Marin David Condic
2001-11-19 17:17 ` AdaOS Ted Dennison
2001-11-19 19:51 ` AdaOS Peter Hend�n
2001-11-19 22:41 ` AdaOS Ted Dennison
2001-11-08 12:34 ` AdaOS Georg Bauhaus
2001-11-09 15:58 ` AdaOS Ted Dennison
2001-11-09 18:56 ` AdaOS Peter Hend�n
2001-11-10 2:44 ` AdaOS Eric Merritt
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2002-06-10 21:39 AdaOS Peter I. Hansen
2002-06-10 22:49 ` AdaOS Preben Randhol
2002-06-10 23:35 ` AdaOS Gerhard Häring
2002-06-11 0:07 ` AdaOS Preben Randhol
2002-06-11 16:42 ` AdaOS Wes Groleau
2002-06-11 17:06 ` AdaOS Preben Randhol
2001-09-10 15:09 AdaOS Peter Hermann
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