This is distinct from the concept of a "service process", which is a user mode component somewhat analogous to a daemon in Unix-like operating systems.
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In particular hardware abstraction does not involve abstracting the instruction set, which generally falls under the wider concept of portability.
Windows NT kernel, used in all Windows NT systems (including Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8)
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