Friday, 29 July 2011

Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)


A Windows NT service that provides basic input/output services such as timers, interrupts, and multiprocessor management for computer hardware. The HAL is a device driver for the motherboard circuitry that allows the Windows NT operating system to treat dif- ferent families of computers the same way. See also Driver, Service, Interrupt Request.


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