Here is the reason Reality did not continue—our core interrupt-driven engine became forbidden. The report documents the technical requirements for a complete rewrite which, with installation, testing—and aiming at a moving audio OS target with which we were abundantly familiar from our CTL work—converged on an estimated $1M cost. And it would have sounded worse than what we already had running on a $100 Creative Labs card with S/PDIF!

19960108 Microsoft announces WDM to kill NSP
19960115 Intel takes optional non-compete extension
19960115 Intel discloses MMX to Seer
19960122 Intel Re-Releases NSP code (without Native Audio)
19960124 Seer requests Intel approval for Creative deal

19960101 Creative losses: $30M in quarter
19960101 SEEERSYNTH > CREATIVE WAVESYNTH 1.0
19960103 LOI draft
19960111 LOI final / No shop
19960112 National Semiconductor
19960118 NAMM 96 Anaheim: showed SeerSynth & Reality prototype

19960125 Draft Technology License Agreement (TLA)
19960126 SJ TLA response
19960130 Seer Patent Report
19960131 Reality Biz Plan 2.0