HAL

1. Short for Hardware Abstraction Layer, HAL is an operating system programming layer that enables the operating system to operate with a hardware device.

• Missing Windows hal.dll file.

3. More appropriately known as the "HAL 9000", HAL is the name of the artificial intelligent computer in the 1968 Science Fiction movie 2001: A Space ODYSSEY.

Also see: Operating system definitions, Programming definitions

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