Talk:Hardware abstraction layer

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the article states: "BSD, Linux, MS-DOS and the Windows NT based operating systems also have a HAL."

but does MS-DOS really have any HAL?

maybe someone more competent could either fix the article or confirm the existence of the abstraction layer in ms-dos...

regards, Blueshade 12:01, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

  • Well, MS-DOS was designed so that io.sys serves as an HAL, so that the OS can run with no changes to other parts of the system or MS-DOS applications. See Non-PC compatible x86 computers. Yuhong 00:38, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
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