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Device driver   /dɪvˈaɪs drˈaɪvər/   Listen
Device driver

noun
1.
(computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device.  Synonym: driver.






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"Device driver" Quotes from Famous Books



... and too permissive. It has been retired and replaced by the ECMA-48 standard, which shares both flaws. 3. /n./ [BBS jargon] The set of screen-painting codes that most MS-DOS and Amiga computers accept. This comes from the ANSI.SYS device driver that must be loaded on an MS-DOS computer to view such codes. Unfortunately, neither DOS ANSI nor the BBS ANSIs derived from it exactly match the ANSI X.364 terminal standard. For example, the ESC-[1m code turns on the bold highlight on large machines, ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0



Words linked to "Device driver" :   utility, computer science, computing, utility program, driver, service program



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