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==Personnel==
==Personnel==
* [[Gary Kidall]]
* [[Gary Kidall]]
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Pioneering microcomputer company founded by Gary Kidall in California, USA in 1974 as Intergalactic Digital Research and commonly known during their early years as DRI and later as just DR. Sold the first commercially available microcomputer disk operating system in the form of CP/M.

Known products

  • CBASIC - Basic compiler for CP/M and DOS
  • CP/M - Operating system for 8008, x80, x86, 680x0 and 32xx0 microprocessors.
  • DOS Plus - Operating system for 8086 compatible processors that ran both CP/M and DOS software.
  • DR DOS - DOS compatible operating system
  • GEM - Windowing software
  • Pascal/MT+ - Pascal compiler for x80 and x86 systems.
  • PL/M - Systems programming language

Personnel