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Source: Joan Touzet (joant@Cadence.COM)
Moderator: Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
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I found a press release today that could be beneficial for OS/2 
developers out there interested in developing new CD-R or DVD-R
drivers for OS/2.

These two paragraphs caught my attention:

   MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1998--Drexler 
   Technology Corporation (Nasdaq:DRXR) today announced that it
   plans to offer licenses for certain CD-R (compact disk-recordable)
   and DVD-R (digital versatile disk-recordable) optical disk
   drive systems using ``packet-writing'' under a systems/software 
   architecture patent that has been granted in six countries. 

   The patent covers methods of reading and writing data files on
   a nonerasable, laser-recordable optical disk and methods of 
   transferring, inputting, and outputting data files within a
   computer system that utilizes both a computer memory and an 
   optical disk, such as a CD-R or DVD-R disk. The system/software
   architecture used in the patented method facilitates
   "packet-writing" and is applicable to any personal computer 
   operating system including Windows(R) 95, Windows 98, Windows NT,
   UNIX, Macintosh, OS-2, and DOS. The invention permits a number
   of separate laser recordings on a single track of an optical
   disk with minimum waste of data storage space for "overhead"
   functions. 

The press release goes on to say that there is a small royalty
on the license.  The full text is available at:

	http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/980915/drexler_te_1.html

I hope someone out there can make use of this information to release
better OS/2-based CD-R software!




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