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Digital Research Inc. (DRI) was a Californian company founded by Gary Kildall and his wife Dorothy in the mid-1970s. It was initially called Galactic Digital Research Inc., and it was set up to develop, market and sell the CP/M operating system. The significance of Digital Research is that it developed the first microprocessor disc operating system and the first programming language and compiler for a microprocessor.
The CP/M disc operating system was the basis for the operating system used on the IBM personal computer, and if things had turned out differently at the time, then Digital Research Inc. could well have been the Microsoft of the PC revolution.
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O’Regan, G. (2015). Digital Research Inc.. In: Pillars of Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21464-1_12
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