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  2. ACPI - Wikipedia

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    The "It's now safe to power off the system" screen in Windows 10 and 11. Microsoft's Windows 98 was the first operating system to implement ACPI, [17] [18] but its implementation was somewhat buggy or incomplete, [19] [20] although some of the problems associated with it were caused by the first-generation ACPI hardware. [21]

  3. Advanced SCSI Programming Interface - Wikipedia

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    Adaptec also developed generic SCSI disk and CD-ROM drivers for DOS (ASPICD.SYS and ASPIDISK.SYS). [3]: 60–61 At least a couple of other programming interfaces for SCSI device drivers competed with ASPI in the early 1990s, including CAM (Common Access Method), developed by Apple; and Layered Device Driver Architecture, developed by Microsoft.

  4. UEFI - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, PCs running 64-bit versions of Windows Vista SP1, Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are compatible with UEFI Class 2. [ 128 ] [ 129 ] 32-bit UEFI was originally not supported since vendors did not have any interest in producing native 32-bit UEFI firmware because of the mainstream status of ...

  5. Advanced Power Management - Wikipedia

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    Advanced power management (APM) is a technical standard for power management developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 [1] which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS (part of the computer's firmware) to achieve power management.

  6. Talk:ACPI - Wikipedia

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    This whole thing reminds me of something that happened back in 1995. Many BIOS routines were 16-bit and windows was wasting a lot of time thunking between 32-bit and 16-bit so the good folks at Microsoft just wrote a bunch of 32-bit BIOS drivers to replace the 16-bit ones discovered at boot.

  7. Windows Driver Model - Wikipedia

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    Common device driver compatibility issues include: a 32-bit device driver is required for a 32-bit Windows operating system, and a 64-bit device driver is required for a 64-bit Windows operating system. 64-bit device drivers must be signed by Microsoft, because they run in kernel mode and have unrestricted access to the computer hardware. For ...

  8. Windows Driver Kit - Wikipedia

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    Previously, the WDK was known as the Driver Development Kit (DDK) [4] and supported Windows Driver Model (WDM) development. It got its current name when Microsoft released Windows Vista and added the following previously separated tools to the kit: Installable File System Kit (IFS Kit), Driver Test Manager (DTM), though DTM was later renamed and removed from WDK again.

  9. Windows Embedded CE 6.0 - Wikipedia

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    CE 6.0 features a kernel that supports 32,768 processes, up from the 32-process limit of prior versions. Each process receives 2 GB of virtual address space, up from 32 MB. Windows Embedded CE is commonly used in supermarket self-checkouts and cars as a display. Windows Embedded CE is a background system on most devices that have it.