On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:28:25PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Architecture describes the hardware you need to run this. > > But the hardware is abstracted away by the kernel. The kernel provides > an ABI to the userland. So you need a means of identifying an ABI, not > the class of silicon in the machine.
A nit I like to pit: Hardware is a particular implementation of an architecture. I.e., the hardware is not unique for the same architecture. Not even software abstraction; things like fab processes, or equivalent logic circuits. I think it's a term that gets abused quite a bit. 2 cents. -- Phil Mendelsohn Graduate Student, Dept. of Mathematics 342 Machray Hall University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2 Office: 204-474-6470, 446 Machray Hall. http://www.rephil.org phil at rephil dot org
