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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:14 am 
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Well, the thread seems to be quite focused on abstracting the hardware away, and someone actually went as far as to say:

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The whole point of an operating system is provide an api that's independant of the hardware beneith,


My previous was simply a hint based on my differing personal opinion.

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If you quoted the part you were responding to in the first place, it would have saved us some confusion. :)

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