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{{Infobox company
| name                = DeviceLogics
| logo                = 
| type                = 
| industry            = [[Computer software]]
| fate                = 
| founded             = {{Start date and age|2002|11|df=yes}}
| founder             = [[Bryan Wayne Sparks|Bryan Sparks]], Bryce Burns, Troy Tribe
| hq_location_city    = [[Lindon, Utah]]
| hq_location_country = [[United States]]
| key_people          = 
| products            = [[DR-DOS]]
| num_employees       = 
| num_employees_year  = 
| revenue             =
| homepage            = {{URL|http://www.drdos.com/}} (dead since 2018)
}}
'''DeviceLogics''' was a company in [[Lindon, Utah|Lindon, Utah, USA]], founded in November 2002. Originally [[doing business as|doing business]] mostly under the DeviceLogics name, the company was incorporated as '''DRDOS, Inc.''' for legal reasons. The DeviceLogics name was later dropped.

[[Bryan Wayne Sparks]] co-founded the company, together with Bryce Burns and Troy Tribe, and acquired [[DR-DOS]] from the [[Canopy Group]], a [[Utah]] technology venture group. Copies of [[DR-DOS 7.03]] have been licensed and distributed by this company.<ref name="Conner_2002"/><ref name="PCW_2002"/><ref name="Siering_2002"/><ref name="CW_2002"/> The company's web site went offline in 2018.

==History of DR-DOS==
[[File:DeviceLogics DR-DOS 8.0 720x400.png|thumb|DeviceLogics DR-DOS 8.0]]
In 1994, Bryan W. Sparks, with help from [[Novell]]'s [[Raymond John Noorda]], founded [[Caldera, Inc.]] Caldera bought DR-DOS from [[Novell]] in 1996.<ref name="Caldera_1996_OpenSource"/>

==See also==
* [[Lineo]]

==References==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="Conner_2002">{{cite news |author-last=Conner |author-first=Deni |title=Start-up Revives once-vaunted DR-DOS |newspaper=[[Network World]] |date=2002-12-16 |location=Lindon, Utah, USA |url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/2338901/start-up-revives-once-vaunted-dr-dos.html |access-date=2019-06-02 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215192816/https://www.networkworld.com/article/2338901/start-up-revives-once-vaunted-dr-dos.html |archive-date=2020-02-15}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20200215192810/https://books.google.de/books?id=SBkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT9&lpg=PT9&dq=Locating+Legends+Ray+Noorda+Deni+Connor&source=bl&ots=boI_SSM6p0&sig=ACfU3U2L59O59jd4uki5q89JUh1nPiQQjw&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwids4yeo9TnAhVEDewKHRsxAVQQ6AEwCnoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=Locating%20Legends%20Ray%20Noorda%20Deni%20Connor&f=false archive][https://archive.today/20190602215956/https://books.google.de/books?id=SBkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT9&redir_esc=y%23v=onepage&q&f=false archive]</ref>
<ref name="PCW_2002">{{cite news |author-last=Conner |author-first=Deni |title=Startup Revives DR-DOS |newspaper=[[PCWorld]] |date=2002-02-16 |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,108004/article.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930190417/http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,108004/article.html |archive-date=2007-09-30}} [https://archive.today/20130131112311/http://www.pcworld.com/article/108004/article.html]</ref>
<ref name="Siering_2002">{{cite web |title=DR-DOS lebt |language=de |date=2002-11-20 |author-first=Peter |author-last=Siering |work=[[heise online]] |url=https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/DR-DOS-lebt-70757.html |access-date=2020-02-16 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216182745/https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/DR-DOS-lebt-70757.html |archive-date=2020-02-16}}</ref>
<ref name="CW_2002">{{cite news |title=DeviceLogics haucht DR-DOS neues Leben ein |language=de |author=<!-- staff writer, no byline --> |newspaper=[[Computerwoche]] |date=2002-12-16 |location=Munich, Germany |publisher=[[IDG]] |url=https://www.computerwoche.de/a/devicelogics-haucht-dr-dos-neues-leben-ein,535164 |access-date=2020-02-16 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216183207/https://www.computerwoche.de/a/devicelogics-haucht-dr-dos-neues-leben-ein,535164 |archive-date=2020-02-16}}</ref>
<ref name="Caldera_1996_OpenSource">{{cite web |title=Caldera announces open source code model for DOS - DR DOS + the Internet = Caldera OpenDOS |editor-first1=Lyle |editor-last1=Ball <!-- |editor-link1=Lyle Ball --> |editor-first2=Nancy |editor-last2=Pomeroy |date=1996-09-10 |publisher=[[Caldera, Inc.]] |location=Provo, Utah, USA |url=http://caldera.com:80/news/pr002.html |access-date=2019-06-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961018220910/http://caldera.com/news/pr002.html |archive-date=1996-10-18}}</ref>
}}

==External links==
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20180705033720/http://drdos.com/ Official website]}}{{cbignore}} (archived snapshot as of 2018-07-05)
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201003322/http://www.devicelogics.com/ |title=devicelogics.com}}{{cbignore}}

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