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On Apr 9, 2005, at 4:25 AM, Martin Roos wrote:

> i certainly dont think that every userlevel application should worry
> about implementing the irda stack itself ... this is kindof wierd
> (would you develope an ufs for each application that wants to use your
> data on your ufs formatted disk ? or would every network application
> have to own their own implementation of tcp stack ? i don't think so
> ...)

You can always write a library that has drivers in it.  OS X uses this 
approach for things like scanners and USB HID devices for example.

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