August 21, 2019 , , , ,
Device driver is the software that is responsible for communicating with device controller and reset of the operating system. Device drivers are vendor specific software and are provided by I/O device manufactures. It place vital role in making operating systems independent of I/O devices. Device manufactures are responsible for providing different drivers for different operating systems. This means separate device driver is needed for Windows, Linux, Sun Solaries, Unix etc.