DEVICELOGICS SAID that it bought DR-DOS from the Canopy Group and will upgrade it in Spring 2003 with version 8.0.
And in a classic phrase of our time, Bryan Sparks, CEO of Device Logics said: "The scrawny, old cow is still giving milk".
DR-DOS was a contender once. Digital Research, which also introduced the GEM graphical user interface, which fairly sped along on the old 286s and 386s of the mid-1980s, could fairly claim its DOS was better than DOS.
Just like our old friends at IBM used to say OS/2 with Win32 support in the early 90s was a "better Windows than Windows". That really cheesed off Microsoft.
DR-DOS was bought by Caldera, then it was spun out to Canopy and tweaked for the embedded market, while DeviceLogics bought it in October.
News source: The Inq
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