What is a Driver?

 

A program that controls a device. Every device, whether it be a printer, disk drive, or keyboard, must have a driver program. Many drivers, such as the keyboard driver, come with the operating system. For other devices, you may need to load a new driver when you connect the device to your computer. In Windows environments, drivers often have a.DRV extension. In DOS systems, drivers are files with a.SYS extension. A driver acts like a translator between the device and programs that use the device. Each device has its own set of specialized commands that only its driver knows. In contrast, most programs access devices by using generic commands. The driver, therefore, accepts generic commands from a program and then translates them into specialized commands for the device.

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Here are some driver sources:

Windrivers.com

Driverguide.com

For Linux

For Apple drivers

For speciality drivers:

Nvidia.Com

3Dfx.com