SciTech Software, Inc. was a privately held

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based in

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. Founded by Kendall Bennett in 1996, SciTech Software, Inc. developed many popular

graphics Graphics () are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in design and manufacture, ...

device driver programs for the PC, ranging from UniVESA (later renamed to

UniVBE UniVBE (short for ''Universal VESA BIOS Extensions'') is a software driver that allows DOS applications written to the VESA BIOS standard to run on almost any display device made in the last 15 years or so. The UniVBE driver was written by SciT ...

) to SciTech Display Doctor and

SciTech SNAP SciTech SNAP (System Neutral Access Protocol) is an operating system portable, dynamically loadable, native-size 32-bit/64-bit device driver architecture. SciTech SNAP defines the architecture for loading an operating system neutral binary device ...

Graphics and SciTech SNAP Audio. It is now acquired by Alt Richmond Inc.

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