Distributed Processing Technology (DPT) was founded in 1977, in

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. DPT was an early pioneer in

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technology, popularizing the use of disk caching in the 1980s and 1990s. DPT was the first company to design, manufacture and sell microprocessor-based intelligent caching

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s to the

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computer market. Prior to DPT, disk caching technology had been implemented in proprietary hardware in mainframe computing to improve the speed of disk access. DPTController

DPT's products popularized the use of disk caching in the 1980s. According to Bill Brothers,

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product manager at the

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(SCO), a computer operating system vendor, "The kind of performance those guys (DPT) produce is phenomenal. It's unlike any other product on the market." DPT was founded by Steve Goldman, who served as the President and

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until DPT was acquired by

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in November 1999.

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