Driver vs Software - What's the difference?
driver | software |
One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive .
Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive .
A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
A person who drives some other vehicle.
(computing) A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
(golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
(nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
(computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.
* 1958 , John W. Tukey, "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics" in The American Mathematical Monthly , vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan. 1958), pp 1-9:
* 1995 , Paul Niquette, Softword: Provenance for the Word ‘Software’ :
As a proper noun driver
is .As a noun software is
software.driver
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(en noun)Derived terms
* back-seat driver * driver-ant * driver-boom * driverless * driverside * driver's license * driver transistor * driver tube * driver valve * driver-yard * in the driver's seat * pile-driver * screwdriverSee also
* chauffeur * conductor * pilot * rider ----software
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(-)- The "software " comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.
- As originally conceived, the word "software " was merely an obvious way to distinguish a program from the computer itself. A program comprised sequences of changeable instructions each having the power to command the behavior of the permanently crafted machinery, the "hardware."