The way a computer communicates with a peripheral device is through a device driver. A device driver is a low level computer program that allows higher level programs to communicate with a hardware device connected to the computer bus. Device drivers are hardware dependent and specific to an operating system.
A special piece of system software called a device driver.
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a) channel The correct answer is DRIVERS: "A device driver, or simply driver, handles the transmission protocols between a computer and its peripheral devices." Beskeen, David W. (2013-04-02). Microsoft® Office 2013: Illustrated Introductory, First Course (Page Concepts 16). Cengage Textbook. Kindle Edition. b) The transmission protocol between a computer and its peripheral devices is handled by the hardware interface for the device. On larger machines such as mainframes, this can be called a channel. The interface hardware can be included on the system board or mother board or it can be a separate interface card that plugs into the computer. A device driver is the software that receives requests from the application or system software and issues commands to the device interface which carries out the commands and actually sending and receiving information from the device.
A PC card is used to connect peripheral devices to a notebook computer.
A scanner is the computer peripheral used as an input in an office. Input devices are things you attach to a computer.
A modem is a peripheral device based on the fact that peripheral devices are devices located on the outside of a computer
A peripheral is a device attached to a host computer, but not part of it.Some common peripheral devices are keyboards, printers, computer monitors
A computer peripheral, or peripheral device, is an external object that provides input and output for the computer. Some common input devices include: * joystick * pen tablet * MIDI keyboard * digital camera * video camera
periperal is a device that is in the computer
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