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To: re3 who wrote (62866)	9/18/1999 1:40:00 PM
From: RJL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

Ike, A driver is small program that the operating system needs to identify and properly use a hardware device. Ex: A video driver for your video card, sound card, modem driver, etc.) Rich

To: re3 who wrote (62866)	9/18/1999 1:41:00 PM
From: accountclosed	Respond to of 86076

someone may have a better definition, but it is a piece of software, that is pretty low level stuff. to me, high level applications might be a browser or a spreadsheet. low level applications might be the operating system. say for instance we are talking about a monitor...the monitor has to be able to communicate with win98 or whatever operating system. or a printer. a printer has certain protocols and the operating system is prepared to ship off instructions in its language, so there needs to be a "driver" which essentially is a bridge or translation between devices, cards, etc. so that both sides of the bridge talk the same language. it sounded like your keyboard was not speaking the same language as win98.