Dynamic Microprocessor Associates, Inc. (DMA), was a

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company in the

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. Though best known for its remote administration product

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, DMA also developed and marketed the relational database management system Formula IV, the BBS software Chairman and the modem control software ASCOM. It was acquired by

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on August 21, 1991, for

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22 million.

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