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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

Operating Systems

CP/M - OS for 8008, x80, x86, Z8000, 680x0 and 32xx0 microprocessors.
Personal CP/M-86
MP/M - multi-user OS
Concurrent CP/M - Merge of CP/M-86 and MP/M-86 features
Concurrent PC DOS - Concurrent CP/M-86 with PC DOS compatibility
DOS Plus - Operating system for 8086 compatible processors that ran both CP/M and DOS software.
FlexOS - protected mode multi-user/multitasking OS
DR DOS - DOS compatible operating system

Applications

Access Manager
Display Manager
DR DRAW - Graphics software
GEM - Windowing software
GSX - Graphics System eXtension

Languages

ASM86 - assembler
CBASIC - Basic compiler for CP/M and DOS
DR C-86 - C compiler
DR PL/I-86 Compiler
Level II COBOL - COBOL compiler (based on MF COBOL) plus Access Manager and Display Manager
Pascal/MT+ - Pascal compiler for x80 and x86 systems.
Personal BASIC
PL/M - Systems programming language

Personnel

Gary Kidall
Dorothy McEwen

Links

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 * Personal CP/M-86
 * MP/M - multi-user OS
-* Concurrent CP/M
+* [[Concurrent CP/M]] - Merge of CP/M-86 and MP/M-86 features
-* Concurrent PC DOS
+* [[Concurrent PC DOS]] - Concurrent CP/M-86 with PC DOS compatibility
 * [[DOS Plus]] - Operating system for 8086 compatible processors that ran both CP/M and DOS software.
 * FlexOS - protected mode multi-user/multitasking OS