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English:A typical vision of a computer architecture as a series of abstraction layers: hardware, firmware, assembler, kernel, operating system and applications.
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Own work. Based on [[1]]
Date
26 February 2006
Author
Peter Hanula
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Licenced under GFDL
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A typical vision of a computer architecture as a series of abstraction layers: hardware, firmware, assembler, kernel, operating system and applications (see also Tanenbaum 79). ... In computing, firmware is software that is embedded in a hardware device. ... A kernel connects the application software to the hardware of a computer. ... An abstraction layer is a way of hiding the implementation details of a particular set of functionality. ...