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The point of contact between two hardware devices or two software elements. A hardware port can be the physical connection point between a printer cable and the computer.A software port, represented by a memory address, can be the logical contact point between a LAN driver and the protocol bound to it, or the point of access to a service on a TCP/IP host computer.

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