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Source: Adrian Gschwend (ktk@netlabs.org)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (trevor@haligonian.com)
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Many people have asked what is going on with SciTech Display Doctor.
This week Kendall Bennett wrote in the SciTech Newsgroup why there are
no new betas available to the public at the moment.

If you don't know SDD/2, this will be *the* solution to all display
device driver problems on OS/2. Check:

  http://www.scitechsoft.com 


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  Actually B14 has already been sent to IBM, and B15 is nearly ready.
  I am hoping we can get B15 ready for general release also, but I
  can't promise anything. Our internal releases to IBM get sent our
  on regular (usually weekly) basis, and we don't have the resources
  to handle weekly drops of the end user version at the moment. The
  most important thing we have to concentrate on is fulfilling our
  IBM contract at this particular juncture. 

  We are also doing agressive internal testing, both at IBM and
  internally here. Hence a lot of the problems people have been
  seeing should start to get cleared up as we move forward.

  So be patient, and you shall all be rewarded, as IBM requires the 
  product to work 100% on all supported hardware ;-)

  Regards,

  Kendall Bennett 

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There is also a discussion about OpenGL support, as you may know SGI
released the OpenGL source to the public (http://oss.sgi.com/). This
was one of the major problems regarding OpenGL and OS/2 because
companies had to pay for the license of OpenGL until now. 

Again Kendall says:

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  I think all 3D HW vendors have such licenses, or at least a
  sub-license via Microsoft for Windows platforms. SGI obviously
  decided to Open Source this stuff because with the development
  going on with Mesa, soon their license would be irrelevant for the
  Linux platform. No doubt they realised that everyone is better off
  if we all concentrate on one set of Open Source code as the
  foundation for cross platform OpenGL implementations.

  > Now that the full source code is open, there should be no reason
  > for IBM to withhold the DDK. Does anyone at SciTech or anywhere
  > else have any information on this?

  I will ask IBM about this, but this does change things somewhat.
  IBM already told us that they were looking into how to get us the
  necessary information we needed without an SGI license (since we
  were planning on using Mesa). We may now use SGI sources instead of
  Mesa (or a combination of the two), and the stuff IBM owns (the DDK
  bindings) should be more readily available. 

  Of course IBM legal may take months to digest all of this ;-)

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