Hardware Abstraction Layer

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Hardware Abstraction Layer

The Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) is a abstraction layer between the physical PC hardware and the software. HAL is a part of the operating system. It's task is to allow instructions from high level programming languages to communicate between the low-level components (e.g. directly hardware).

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