From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5385624f72218ba7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-09 08:07:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed1.uncensored-news.com!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9r8pvf$vms$1@papyrus.erlm.siemens.de> <9rk11n$e4n$1@plutonium.btinternet.com> <9rk749$ndt$1@papyrus.erlm.siemens.de> <9rnid9$541$1@neptunium.btinternet.com> <9s3u20$10s0sv$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <9s670f$u2e$1@papyrus.erlm.siemens.de> <9s74eb$12b2bq$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <9s76dh$ls0$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9s9413$11mrei$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <071120011028298704%philip@no-spam.cs.uwa.edu.au> <9scke6$12jb14$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> Subject: Re: AdaOS Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 11:06:34 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:06:34 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16132 Date: 2001-11-09T16:06:34+00:00 List-Id: In article <9scke6$12jb14$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de>, Nick Roberts says... > >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 think there's a bit more to it than that. I believe its purpose initially was to shelter the kernel from processor implemenation details, so that only the HAL would have to be rewritten to support a new processor. In that respect, you can kind of think of it as a microkernel. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.