General Software was a Washington, USA based creator and supplier of system software headquartered in

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. It was founded in 1989 by Steve Jones and later incorporated in 1990 as General Software, Inc. In 2008, the company was purchased by

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, Inc. General Software developed firmware to support telecommunications, data communications,

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(Ultra Mobile Personal Computer), general consumer electronics, and support models designed for embedded ODMs (

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) and OEMs (

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). Some of the products included General Software OEM-DOS, Network-DOS, Embedded DOS, Embedded DOS-ROM, Embedded DOS-XL and Embedded BIOS. In 1998 they partnered with Caldera Thin Clients, Inc. in order to ship their Embedded BIOS with Caldera DR-DOS.

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Software companies based in Washington (state) Software companies of the United States Companies established in 1989 {{tech-company-stub

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