Talk:Digital Research

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:34, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Digital Research Forth
DR did a Forth for one or more of their OSes? Really? I remember (and probably still have somewhere, the Basics, Pascal etc, but I cannot find any mention of them doing a Forth. Citation please. Lovingboth (talk) 17:18, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I've seen various Forth implementations for CP/M, but none of them was developed and copyrighted by Digital Research. Therefore, I removed the entry until someone actually finds a reliable sources for this.
 * I did, however, add FORTRAN to the the list as there actually was a Digital Research FORTRAN for CP/M.
 * --Matthiaspaul (talk) 21:01, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

XVCPI support in Concurrent DOS 386
Does someone have any information (announcements, documentation, or other bits) in regard to XVCPI (Extended Virtual Control Program Interface) support in Concurrent DOS 386 since ca. 1989? This was apparently a parallel effort to DPMI to enable the full memory management and multitasking capabilities of the 386 in which Intel, Digital Research, Interactive Systems and other parties seem to have played a role. Very little is known about this, so if you know anything about it, your comments or contributions to the VCPI article or talk page would be highly welcome. Thanks. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 12:03, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

No mention of CP/M-68 and little mention of GEM
This article is missing of a significant aspect of DRI's output - the Atari ST running GEM and underlying supporting OS called GEMDOS, which was basically CP/M-68K hacked about to support the MS-DOS hooks that were needed to run GEM (established as running on MS-DOS as its primary OS by then). GEM was built on top of the GEM VDI system, which I think was a virtual device system built on top of GSX. The AES (Application Environment Services) handled the higher level stuff. The system call parameters were incompatible between the two (for example, rectangles in VDI were TLBR whereas in AES they were TLWH). Atari called this entire system TOS, and as developers, we didn't disagree.

I believe Atari sold upwards of two million STs; in the heyday of the bog-standard Z-80 64K CP/M machine, sales couldn't have been much more than 100K units a year. In terms of revenue, I doubt Uncle Jack was paying very much per machine, but in terms of installed base this has to be the most common DRI product.

Do I have references for any of this? Probably not, unless you count the paper listings of GEMDOS I think I probably still have in the attic. However, most of the people who were there at the time are still alive. (And most seem to be working for Microsoft, apart from me). And as for anecdotes about Gary Kildall... well they're just anecdotes.

Someone needs to fill in the gaps. If I have time, I might.

Fjleonhardt (talk) 15:09, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Hacked Digital Research website
www.digitalresearch.biz appears to have been hacked. Could someone please remove all references to this site (I tried but seemed to be making a mess of the article, so I gave up). Thanks. StefanosPavlos (talk) 11:46, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * Check and fixed the mess created by bot. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 16:48, 5 August 2018 (UTC)