>>>What is the relationship between these? That is, I'm wondering if there's a minimum NT/SP version to handle a USB port & connection. I can find nothing in MSDN on this...
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>>Hi Bruce,
>>I noticed in the docs for my New Toshiba laptop that they stated I had to have atleast SP3 loaded before installing my USB zip drive. I also know Win95 requires release B for USB... and I believe release B and SP3 were relatively close on the timeline. HTH
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>Okay, thanks Roxanne, I can live with that for NT. I already know about the Win95 the hard way -- we got a new scanner with USB, and the PC had USB, but when I tried to install it, our old Win95 OS wouldn't work with it :(

Bruce,

While USB support was added to Win95 in OSR 2, the finalized code wasn't present until release 2.1, and has been under revision since, up through version 2.5 at least. Win98 had much fuller support for USB, but even its USB code was revised in Win98 SP1/Win98se

Under NT, minimal USB support (required some additional files not in the base SP) was added in SP3, and again revised and incorporated more fully under SP5.

If you really want USB, I'd suggest Win98 for now, and Win2K when its finalized.