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 ...

A programming interface (API) that is the most detailed, allowing the programmer to manipulate functions within a software module or within hardware at a very granular level. Contrast with high-level ...

I am looking to get a good knownledge of low level win32 API (threads, vm, fs, etc...) Are there any good resources out there? Looking at books on Amazon brings too many choice and I was wondering if ...

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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 ...