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HAL

HAL: 1. Hardware Abstraction Layer. Part of the Windows kernel responsible for much of the interfacing to hardware devices.; 2. The name given to the AI computer in the story "2001: A Space Odyssey". The name was derived from "Heuristic and Algorithmic".

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