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By convention, all drivers in Windows 3.1 were called the virtual something device because their main job was to virtualize some hardware or other functionality. That's where the funny name VxD came from. It was short for virtual x device.
By convention, all drivers in Windows 3.1 were called the virtual something device because their main job was to virtualize some hardware or other functionality. That's where the funny name VxD came from. It was short for virtual x device.
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