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Yeah, as Randor says, a sys is subsystem native. Its also got to have a check sum, and its entry point is Driverentry.

Conecptually a (sys file) driver has no main function. After loading its driventry can be paged out, its no longer needed. All it does during initialisation os to register funcitons with the OS to handle various events.

So it might create and register an objetc that user mode can access (dos device name, such as 'COM1'). It might register an interrupt handler as well for example.

A drivers job is to 'bridge' parts of the OS, and is totally under the OSs control.

A driver can also not create any GUI components.

And, a driver is also about 100 times more complex than the worst application to write. For example, you cant touch paged out code or data when running at elevated levels (think during interrupt processing, althouhg there are more common other high levels not related to interrups).
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