| driver |
| List of: | Glossary Items | |
| Subjects: | Image Output | |
| Contents: | Glossary | |
| A driver is a low-level, hardware-, operating system-, or windowing system-dependent function or set of functions. For example, an application or toolkit might have a graphics driver to handle the output of data specifically to X Windows, and other drivers for Sun Windows, PC-DOS, PC Windows and PC Windows NT. By collecting such platform-specific code in drivers, the main body of functionality can be kept platform-independent and easily portable. | |||||