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by layer8
978 days ago
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Think of it as part of the “API” of the CPU that a program can make use of however it likes. In the early days (for DOS and the like), the distinction between operating system and application was more one of convention and not enforced by hardware mechanisms. The program was supposed to control the hardware, and not the other way around. |
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