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{{Infobox company
| name = Distributed Processing Technology
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| type = Private<ref name="adaptec" />
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| fate = Acquired by [[Adaptec]]
| founded = {{start date and age|1977}} in [[Maitland, Florida]], United States
▲| founder = Steve Goldman
▲| defunct = <!-- {{end date|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
▲| products = Intelligent Storage Controllers
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'''Distributed Processing Technology Corporation''' (DPT) was
==History==
[[File:DPTController.jpg|thumb|upright|DPT PM2554 and PM3754112 SCSI RAID disk controllers]]▼
[[File:DPT PM2022.jpg|thumb|upright|left|DPT [[Extended Industry Standard Architecture|EISA]] Fast SCSI Controller PM2022]]
DPT was founded in [[Maitland, Florida]], by Steve Goldman in 1977.<ref name=burnett /> The company was the first to design, manufacture and sell microprocessor-based intelligent [[cache (computing)|caching]] [[disk controller]]s to the [[OEM]] computer market. Prior to DPT, disk caching technology had been implemented in proprietary hardware in mainframe computing to improve the [[Hard disk drive performance characteristics|speed of disk access]].<ref name=obj6:3>{{cite journal|title=Maitland manufacturer's electronic part becomes darling of computer trade|journal=Orlando Business Journal|date=July 2–8, 1989|volume=6|issue=3 |url=http://www.stevegoldman.com/Publications/AboutSG/1989-07-02%20OBJ%20-%20Maitland%20Manufacturer's%20Electronic%20Part%20Becomes%20Darling%20of%20Computer%20Trade.pdf|accessdate=25 August 2014}}</ref><ref name=obj9:19/>
[[File:PM3001 Disk Controller Distributed Processing Technology.jpg|thumb|upright|DPT's first product: PM3001 caching floppy disk controller]]
▲[[File:DPTController.jpg|thumb|upright|DPT PM2554 and PM3754112 SCSI RAID disk controllers]]
DPT's products popularized the use of disk caching in the 1980s.<ref name=obj6:3 /><ref name=burnett>{{cite journal | last=Burnett | first=Richard | date=October 30, 1989 | url= | title=Predicting the Power of the PC: Maitland Company Caching in with Success of Disk Controller | work=Orlando Sentinel | page=25 | via=ProQuest}}</ref> The company was also a pioneering designer of [[RAID controller]] [[Application-specific integrated circuit|ASICs]].<ref>{{cite journal | last=Brooks | first=Mary | date=February 5, 1995 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/278588442/ | title=Computer Company Has Found Its Niche | work=Orlando Sentinel | page=A5 | via=ProQuest}}</ref> According to Bill Brothers, [[Unix]] product manager at the [[Santa Cruz Operation]] (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."<ref name=obj9:19>{{cite journal|title=Technology Tops Silver 50|journal=Orlando Business Journal|date=Oct 16–22, 1992|volume=9|issue=19 |url=http://www.stevegoldman.com/Publications/AboutSG/1992-10-16%20OBJ%20-%20DPT%20Takes%20Byte%20Out%20of%20Silver%2050.pdf|accessdate=27 August 2014}}</ref>
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*[http://www.stevegoldman.com/Publications/BySG/1983-02-01%20Mini-Micro%20Systems%20-%20Floppy%20Controller%20Speeds%20Access%20with%20Cache.pdf Floppy controller speeds access with cache]
*[http://www.stevegoldman.com/Publications/BySG/1984-09-01%20Digital%20Design%20-%20Caching%20Disk%20Controller%20Relieves%20System%20Bottlenecks%20-%20Compressed.pdf Caching Disk Controller Relieves System Bottlenecks]
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970715042855/dpt.com|title=Official website|date=July 15, 1997}}
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