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device driver

noun

device driver

noun
1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Software, usually supplied with the operating system or by a hardware manufacturer, that communicates between the operating system of a personal computer and a specific hardware device.

  • The identity of the device driver process is returned by the process manager to the file manager[…]1978, Dennis M. Ritchie, Unix Time-Sharing System, page 2064:

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