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Does "messy" mean "untidy" here?
"Part of the problem is that operating systems perform two essentially unrelated functions: providing application programmers (and application programs, naturally) a clean abstract set of resources instead of the messy hardware ones and managing these hardware resources.
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anonymous Does "messy" mean "untidy" here? Not really. The writer means that code for the hardware would be intricate and peculiar to each device, as opposed to an OS with drivers that take care of translating that and present a uniform set of commands.
- anonymous Does "messy" mean "untidy" here?
- Not really.
- The writer means that code for the hardware would be intricate and peculiar to each device, as opposed to an OS with drivers that take care of translating that and present a uniform set of commands.
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anonymousDoes "messy" mean "untidy" here?
Not really. The writer means that code for the hardware would be intricate and peculiar to each device, as opposed to an OS with drivers that take care of translating that and present a uniform set of commands.
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