[Rant] osopinion: Close That Open Hardware! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 12-Jun-2002 00:21 GMT by sutro | 169 comments View flat View list |
A rather unispired article at best. Read
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Posted by Bill Hoggett on 12-Jun-2002 12:21 GMT | In reply to Comment 52 (Samface): What the point of developing a HAL if you're going to make hardware specific ones which are incompatible with each other?
The point of a HAL is that while the hardware itself may be different, the interface presented to the OS is always the same, so that the OS itself doesn't have to support the hardware directly.
You can see a partial example of this on Amithlon's graphics display, and most likely in the networking and sound with the new version. While the abstraction layers load the correct drivers transparently, the driver presented to AmigaOS is always the same. |
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