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-Welcome to the IP400 project. 
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-The directories here have been restructured. The code directory contains the hardware abstraction for several platforms, 
-and the source directory contains code that is common to all.
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-The current revision level is 1.0
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-See the release notes in the 'IP400 Node Software' document.