virtual device driver

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virtual device driver - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Virtual Device Driver
  VxD
  
     <operating system> (VxD) A device driver under Windows 3.x
     /Windows 95 running as part of the kernel and thus
     having access to the memory of the kernel and all running
     processes as well as raw access to the hardware.  VxD's
     usually have the filename extension .386 under Windows 3.x
     and .vxd under Windows 95.  VxD's written for Windows 3.x can
     be used under Windows 95 but not vice versa.
  
     (1997-02-27)