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My fight with Microsoft: why APIs need to be free

With Oracle choosing APIs as a legal battleground on which to tangle with Google's Android, I'm reminded of another time... Read more

18 April, 2012

The IBM PC: legends from the dawn of time

...2. MS-DOS. Industry legend has it that Gary Kildall, who owned Digital Research, the company behind the then-standard operating system CP/M, was... Read more

12 August, 2011

Caldera still pursuing MS case

Sun Microsystems Inc., the U.S. Department of Justice and various state attorneys general may be commanding the... Read more

11 February, 1998 by Michael Moeller

WINE and the importance of application compatibility

...Windows was neither market nor technology leader. For quite a few years, Digital Research's GEM product owned the PC GUI market. And in technical... Read more

15 May, 2009

Unravelling the top 10 founding myths of IT

There are certain stories that have been floating around the IT industry for years, which few people stop to scrutinise. We attempt to sort fact from fiction Read more

28 November, 2007 by Gary Flood

Can Microsoft join the human race?

...people out. These days, of course, we know about Stac, Go, Netscape, Digital Research, Be, Sun -- the list goes on. We know about the company... Read more

22 June, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

A life with windows

...a straight rip-off of CP/M, an older operating system from Digital Research. Windows was a very poor rip-off of Apple's operating... Read more

25 November, 2005 by Colin Barker

Technology: Levelling Hollywood's playing field

...Threshold Digital Research Labs, a midsize animation studio with a feature film called "Food... Read more

16 August, 2005 by John Borland

Learn the lessons of history

...Altair, not Apple. The first personal computer operating software was written by Digital Research, not Microsoft. And the UK's biggest ISP is not Demon... Read more

7 November, 2001 by Guy Kewney

Looking ahead: The next 20 years

...PC-based, point-of-sale terminals in Thrifty Drug stores were running Digital Research's FlexOS, a real-time operating system whose device drivers could... Read more

7 August, 2001 by Peter Coffee

Are we creating a monster?

...for the IBM PC. There was no one else in the race (Digital Research's Gary Kildall 'went flying' according to common folklore) so the... Read more

20 September, 2000 by Tony Westbrook

Rupert's Weekly Roundup (7/8/2000)

Here is the news. Read it here and save yourself the trouble of trying to catch up on the breaking stories of the week. Read more

4 August, 2000 by Rupert Goodwins

Rupert's Weekly Roundup (3/4/2000)

...Mr 3Com?" and trying hard not to think about Lotus, Borland, WordPerfect, Digital Research and the many other outfits that once played second fiddle to... Read more

31 March, 2000 by Rupert Goodwins

Caldera posts free DOS on Web

...Caldera bought last year. That code was, in turn, a development of Digital Research's DR-DOS. Features of the DOS implementation include multitasking, Personal... Read more

3 February, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Trio of research hubs to poke digital benefits

...around, for example, satellite technology," Drayson said. Another catalyst for setting up digital research centres is the UK's aging population. "As our population is... Read more

29 April, 2009 by Natasha Lomas

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