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Erich Dollansky writes:

>  Remember, the USD stack was rewritten from scratch.

	It it my understanding that in most cases the new USB stack
should ve compatible with the old USB stack, at least to the extent
that programs that compile and run under $OldUSB should compile
and run under $NewUSB out of the box.


					Robert Huff