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From: "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk>
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Yes, but Phil, it's not the actual bits of software that are redundant --
I've no doubt they indeed do useful things -- it's the term 'HAL' that's
redundant. The hardware abstraction layer IS the device drivers, and always
has been. Someone's just invented a fancy name, that's all!

I'm not actually against the invention of nomenclature. I do it myself all
the time. It's calling a spade a Cultivational Utility Device that I have a
problem with.

--
Nick Roberts


"Philip Cummins" <philip@no-spam.cs.uwa.edu.au> wrote in message
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> ...
> You'd find it beneficial to have Hardware Abstraction Layers followed
> by dynamically loadable device drivers. It is not a redundant academic
> invention that is there to make life hard, but rather easier. A simple
> search via Google will provide the sufficient documentation to back
> this up.