Comment Comment by rchiang The Windows 9x series (and earlier) were tightly coupled with x86 (and DOS).The Windows NT family of operating systems has always had the "Hardware Abstraction Layer" (aka HAL) which helped with porting the operating system to other architectures. parent rchiang 3 years ago
The Windows NT family of operating systems has always had the "Hardware Abstraction Layer" (aka HAL) which helped with porting the operating system to other architectures.