Hardware abstraction is nothing new; even Windows has a Hardware Abstraction Layer. It sort of works...sometimes. (Even with a complete Win32 subsystem, NTx barfs up Win9x apps!) Java is a higher-level attempt at it, through the Virtual Machine.

Hardware abstraction is to computer science as existentialism is to philosophy. Unfortunately, hardware is just that - HARD, i.e. solid - thus the abstract, nebulous though it may be, runs into it and goes "ow".

It's kind of like debating "the immovable object vs the irresistible force". ;cP

Frank

Jeffrey Clement wrote:

Is it just me, or does this change the entire landscape?


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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of dreams.
 -Yiddish proverb


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