The Uniform Driver Interface (UDI) is a defunct project developed by several companies to define a portable interface for device drivers. The Uniform Driver...
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Data-Link Interface (ODI) – network card API similar to NDIS Uniform Driver Interface (UDI) – a cross-platform driver interface project Dynax Driver Framework...
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participated at the time, the Uniform Driver Interface (UDI), which sought to establish a common device driver interface spanning multiple software platforms...
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network drivers to support one or more protocol stacks. Uniform Driver Interface (UDI) Universal Network Device Interface (UNDI) PC/TCP Packet Driver Virtual...
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The Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) is an application programming interface (API) for network interface controllers (NICs). It was jointly...
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organization Uniform Driver Interface, a project to develop portable device drivers Unified Display Interface, digital video interface specification...
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the Uniform Driver Interface project (UDI), which sought to establish an OS-neutral and platform-neutral portable interface for writing device drivers. The...
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FOSSIL (redirect from Fido Opus Seadog Standard Interface Layer)
FidoBBS could start spreading, it was seen that a uniform method of communicating with serial interface hardware was needed if the software was going to...
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by Apple and Novell Universal Network Device Interface (UNDI) - used by Intel PXE Uniform Driver Interface (UDI) - defunct Preboot Execution Environment...
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Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) is a de facto standard (with many variants) for synchronous serial communication, used primarily in embedded systems...
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Windows Management Instrumentation (redirect from Windows Management Interface)
Instrumentation (WMI) is a set of extensions to the Windows Driver Model that provides an operating system interface through which instrumented components provide information...
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Direct Rendering Manager (redirect from KMS driver)
DRM driver provides an enhanced API, user-space libdrm is also extended by an extra library libdrm-driver that can be used by user space to interface with...
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USB mass storage device class (redirect from USB mass storage interface)
Programming Interface (ASPI) interface. Apple's Mac OS 9 and macOS support USB mass storage; Mac OS 8.6 supported USB mass storage through an optional driver. The...
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runtime interfaces for Direct3D 10 and higher. WDDM drivers enable areas of functionality which were not uniformly provided by earlier display driver models...
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push-buttons), control gear (e.g., electrical ballasts, LED drivers and dimmers) with DALI interfaces. Application controllers can control, configure or query...
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Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) are technologies that assist drivers with the safe operation of a vehicle. Through a human-machine interface, ADAS...
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OLE DB (category Microsoft application programming interfaces)
allows accessing data from a variety of sources in a uniform manner. The API provides a set of interfaces implemented using the Component Object Model (COM);...
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Ioctl (section Other vectored call interfaces)
extra module called a device driver which runs in kernel space and can directly address the device. An ioctl interface is a single system call by which...
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The history of the graphical user interface, understood as the use of graphic icons and a pointing device to control a computer, covers a five-decade...
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Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is an Indian instant payment system as well as protocol developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)...
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Parallel ATA (redirect from AT Attachment with Packet Interface)
Attachment, also known as Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE), is a standard interface designed for IBM PC-compatible computers. It was first developed by Western...
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CUPS (category Device drivers)
device drivers which CUPS supplies by editing text files in Adobe's PostScript Printer Description (PPD) format. There are a number of user interfaces for...
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MIDI (redirect from Music Instrument Digital Interface)
Instrument Digital Interface (/ˈmɪdi/; MIDI) is an American-Japanese technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical...
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variations in LTPS structure would result in non-uniform threshold voltage for signals and non-uniform brightness using traditional circuits. The new pixel...
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The bio(4) pseudo-device driver and the bioctl(8) utility to implement a generic RAID volume management interface in OpenBSD and NetBSD. The idea behind...
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OpenGL (redirect from OpenGL User Interface Library)
Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used...
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NCSA—National Center for Supercomputing Applications NDIS—Network Driver Interface Specification NDPS—Novell Distributed Print Services NDS—Novell Der...
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The POSIX terminal interface is the generalized abstraction, comprising both an application programming interface for programs, and a set of behavioural...
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SATA (section Advanced Host Controller Interface)
SATA (Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives...
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device drivers include: Interfacing directly Using a high-level interface (Video BIOS) Using a lower-level device driver (file drivers using disk drivers) Simulating...
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