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hardware abstraction

set of software routines that emulate platform-specific details, giving programs direct access to hardware resources in a device-independent, high performance manner
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hardware abstraction

Summary

hardware abstraction is a technique[1]. It draws 133 Wikipedia views per month (technique category, ranking #97 of 416).[2]

Key Facts

  • hardware abstraction's instance of is recorded as technique[3].
  • hardware abstraction's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/hal[4].
  • hardware abstraction's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121g1d95[5].
  • hardware abstraction's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779867049[6].

Why It Matters

hardware abstraction draws 133 Wikipedia views per month (technique category, ranking #97 of 416).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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