Digital Research, Inc. (aka DR or DRI; originally Intergalactic Digital Research) was the company created by Dr. Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/Moperating system and related products. It was the first large software company in the microcomputer world. Digital Research should not be confused with Digital Equipment Corporation; the two were not affiliated.
The company's operating systems, starting with CP/M for 8080/Z80-based microcomputers, were the de facto standard of their era, as MS-DOS and MS Windows became later. Digital Research was purchased by Novell in 1991, primarily for Novell to gain access to the OS line. DR's product suite included the original CP/M and its various offshoots; DR-DOS which was a MS-DOS compatible version of CP/M, and MP/M, the multi-user CP/M.
DR produced a selection of programming languagecompilers and interpreters for their OS-supported platforms, including C, Pascal, COBOL, Forth and BASIC. They also produced a microcomputer version of the GKS graphics standard (related to NAPLPS) called GSX, and later used this as the basis of their GEMGUI. Less known are their application programs, limited largely to the GSX-based DR-DRAW and a small suite of GUI programs for GEM.
Digital Research made the Multiuser DOS utility, which allowed multiple users to run DOS programs concurrently on the same computer.
DigitalResearch, Inc. (aka DR or DRI; originally Intergalactic DigitalResearch) was the company created by Dr. Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/Moperating system and related products.
DigitalResearch was purchased by Novell in 1991, primarily for Novell to gain access to the OS line.
DigitalResearch developed CP/M-86 as an alternative to MS-DOS and it was made available through IBM in early 1982.
As WorldNetDaily first reported, Digital Angel is a sophisticated, miniaturized tracking device intended by its manufacturer for subdermal implantation in large numbers of human beings.
The emergence of Digital Angel has met with protests from civil libertarians in the United States who are concerned over potential involuntary applications of injectable tracking chips.
Sherrie Gossett is a Florida-based researcher and writer, formerly with the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and a contributing reporter to WorldNetDaily.
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