Digital Research
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, 680x0 and 32xx0 microprocessors.
- MP/M - multi-user OS
- 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
- DR DRAW - Graphics software
- GEM - Windowing software
- Languages
- CBASIC - Basic compiler for CP/M and DOS
- DR PL/I 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.
- PL/M - Systems programming language