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Post May 27th, 2005, 2:06 am

Why Kernel can Interact with Hardware. How Hardware Connect to Kernel?

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Post May 27th, 2005, 2:06 am

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Post May 27th, 2005, 8:44 am

Why can the kernal interact with hardware? That's the point of the OS... abstract out some hardware... you don't care what wires you need to set high/low on your network card to send/receive data... that's the job of the OS and drivers. ...I'd recommend learning some assembly if you're interested... learning how to read/write to/from memory addresses and busses is incredibly useful in figuring out how all that low-level stuff works.
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Post June 4th, 2005, 11:48 pm

the hardware "connects" to the kernel through the cable on your hard drive ;)
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