We often say that you don’t have to know how an engine works to drive a car, but you can bet that every driver at the Indy 500 knows exactly how it works. You could say the same for computers. You don ...

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Close to the hardware. Low-level access refers to writing software that drives the hardware directly without going through a software translation layer and its associated overhead. An operating system ...