Definicija: 1. Podpora, ki jo zagotavlja enota, ki ni dodeljena ali podrejena poveljstvu podpirane enote ali formacije, vendar ima nalogo, da prioritetno podpira to enoto. Glej tudi in support of. 2. V mornariški uporabi, delovanje, ki se nanaša na zaščito posameznih sil s strani drugih enot, običajno pod taktično kontrolo teh sil. Glej tudi associated support. 3. Pri kopenskem delovanju, osnovna taktična naloga artilerije, ki mora zagotoviti ognjeno podporo neartilerijski enoti, na podlagi zahteve podpirane enote. Pri tem poveljniški odnos ni posebej opredeljen. Glej tudi general support reinforcing. 4. V pomorstvu, bojna delovanja, ki se nanašajo na operacijo, kjer določene sile ščitijo enote, ki so običajno pod taktičnim poveljstvom te sile. Glej tudi associated support.

Definicija: A channel through which data is transferred between a device and the microprocessor. The port appears to the microprocessor as one or more memory addresses that it can use to send or receive data.

Definicija: Data structures that drivers use to communicate with each other.

Definicija: The part of an I/O request packet (IRP) that is allocated for each driver in a chain of layered drivers. Each driver owns one of the stack locations in the packet and obtains driver-specific information about what input/output (I/O) operation to perform on the specified device. The driver must use the supplied parameters.