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From: "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: AdaOS
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:26:50 -0000
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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).

:-)

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Nick Roberts


"Darren New" <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message
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> 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.