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Optimized Systems Software was formed in early 1981 by Bill Wilkinson and Mike Peters, who had purchased [[Atari BASIC]], [[Atari DOS]] and the [[Atari Assembler Editor]] product from [[Shepardson Microsystems]], Inc. (SMI) who had concluded that their BASIC and DOS products were not viable. The new company enhanced the products, renaming them OS/A+ (the Disk Operating System), BASIC A+ (a disk-based language), and EASMD (a powerful assembler / editor). OSS continued to work with [[Atari]] (who had previously contracted with SMI) on enhanced products, most of which never reached the market.
OSS debuted at the [[West Coast Computer Faire]], March 1981. Their products released over the next several years became respected among Atari programmers, particularly the [[MAC/65]] assembler, the [[Action! (programming language)|Action!]] programming language, and BASIC XL. In an interview with Bill Wilkinson published in 1984, he said the company consisted of 15 people.<ref name="ellison">{{cite journal |last1=Ellison |first1=Peter |title=Bill Wilkinson Interview |journal=ROM |date=August 1984 |volume=1 |issue=7 |page=13 |url=https://archive.org/details/ROM_Magazine_v1i7/page/n12}}</ref>
In January 1988, ICD and OSS merged. In 1994, [[Fine Tooned Engineering]] obtained limited rights to ICD's 8-bit products.
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