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Flashcards by Malachy Moran-Tun, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What is a Device Manager? | > Part of the OS that keeps track of which devices are connected to which ports > Allows / disallows applications to read or write to each device |
| What are Device Drivers? | > Special system software that is required for use of connected devices > Tells the OS how to understand the data from the device, what format to expect the data to be in, and how to interface with said device |
| Why can't Device Drivers work on different OSs? | > Each driver uses OS specific code, meaning the architecture must be exactly as intended > For example, Windows 10 64-bit drivers do not work on 32-bit Windows, or 64-bit Linux etc. |
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