• 2002

Company Description

Incorporated in October of 2002, DRDOS was founded for the advancement of DOS primarily as an embedded solution or sold with single purpose applications. DOS History DRDOS originated in 1987 at Digital Research, Inc.; was then acquired by Novell in the early 90s; in 1996, DR-DOS was acquired by Caldera, Inc., the same company that sued and settled out-of-court with Microsoft Corporation over DOS-related anti-trust allegations; in 1998, it was spun out to Lineo, Inc. where it underwent enhancements targeted at the embedded market and, in October 2002, was acquired by a new company aptly called DRDOS, Inc.

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