device driver
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- Software that enables hardware or devices (such as a printer, mouse, or keyboard) to work with your computer.
Microsoft - Cite This Source - This Definition - driver, WAN, wide area network
- A software program stored on a PC's fixed disk and loaded into memory at boot time that enables a PC to communicate with peripheral devices such as fixed disk drives and CD-ROM drives.
Adaptec - Cite This Source - This Definition - Archival storage, cache, DASD (Direct-Access Storage Device), Nearline Storage, SAF-TE (SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosure), single system high availability, SSD (Solid State Disk), Storage Array, Storage Controller, Tiered Storage
- Software that interfaces a computer with a specific peripheral device, e.g. a videodisk player or a printer.
ATIS - Cite This Source - This Definition - computer peripheral, echo line, GPI, input-output channel, peripheral device, virtual reality