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--- Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> In article
> <9s9413$11mrei$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de>, Nick
> Roberts says...
> >
> >Ah, yes, of course! We don't have device drivers
> any more, we have "Hardware
> >Abstraction Layers".
> >
> >;-)
> 
> Yeah, its a Microsoftism, I believe. They also went
> and defined a "Harware
> Emulation Layer". For some reason, no one wants to
> program it. 
> :-)


Actually it was done on IBMs As/400 and its ancestors
(System 32, 36, 38) long before microsoft got the
idea. except there it was called a TIMI layer.


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