The project contains many contributions from other people, especially in the area of hardware support.
However, there was no, or very little, hardware support for 3D graphics operations.
Both the 1900 series and System/360 provided hardware support for multi-programming.
He later performed contract work for the company, and assisted in writing features like hardware support.
This means that in essence 64-bit Vista and 7 offer the same level of hardware support as their 32-bit counterparts.
One Laptop officials said that the computer might cost $10 to $20 more to run Windows, because of hardware support.
Lack of hardware support may not be an issue, however, for systems that choose to use language-based protection.
OS/2 needs such hardware support because it is essentially three operating systems rolled into one.
Both of these had hardware support in the RS232 standard.
But hardware support is just part of the problem - you also need support from your operating system.