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A device driver, or software driver, is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a device. A driver typically communicates with the device through the computer bus or communications subsystem to which the hardware is connected. When a calling program invokes a routine in the driver, the driver issues commands to the device. Once the device sends data back to the driver, the driver may invoke routines in the original calling program. Drivers are hardware-dependent and operating-system-specific. They usually provide the interrupt handling required for any necessary asynchronous time-dependent hardware interface. Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_driver)

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Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) FAQ
The information on this page is intended primarily for network software developers who are working on lower-level network-related NDIS device drivers for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

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Device Driver @ Wikipedia
A device driver, or a software driver is a specific type of computer software, typically developed to allow interaction with hardware devices. Typically this constitutes an interface for communicating with the device, through the specific computer bus or communications subsystem that the hardware is connected to, providing commands to and/or receiving data from the device, and on the other end, the requisite interfaces to the operating...

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Windows NT/Windows 2000/WDM Driver FAQ
In terms of computer software, a driver is a routine or set of routines that implements the device-specific aspects of generic I/O operations. For example, an application calls a system function that directs the operating system to write the contents of a buffer in memory to a particular device.

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