Polytron
| Private | |
| Industry | Manufacturing of custom and proprietary electronics, IT management |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Founders | Richard Kinnaird, Don Kinzer, Charlie Perkins, Doug Root |
| Headquarters | Elkhart, Indiana , U.S. |
| Website | polytron-corp |
Polytron Corp. is a 1982-founded software company, opened to create a line of instrumentation products for the IBM Personal Computer. It was the creator of the Polytron Version Control System (PVCS). The company was acquired by Sage Software of Rockville, Maryland in 1989, and is now part of Serena Software.
The original company goal was to create a line of instrumentation products for, or based on, the then–recently introduced IBM personal computer. The company was founded in 1982 by Richard Kinnaird, Don Kinzer, Charlie Perkins, and Doug Root. With the exception of Root, all of them had worked at Tektronix in various hardware and/or software engineering positions. The company's headquarters was established in Elkhart, Indiana.
The first product developed was a GPIB controller (computing) plug-in board for the IBM PC. The founders eventually came up with the idea of creating one or more software development tools for the PC which they could sell to provide working capital. The first such product was PolyLibrarian, an object module library utility, which was introduced in late 1982 and written by Kinzer. At the time, there were few, if any, object module librarians available to PC programmers. In 1983, Polytron introduced PolyMake, an MS-DOS version of the well known Unix make utility, initially written by Perkins. The PolyMake product was followed in 1985 by the Polytron Version Control System (PVCS) (also written by Kinzer), that was loosely based on the RCS change control system authored by Walt Tichy while at Purdue University.
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