The Software Link, Incorporated (TSL) was a company in Norcross

Norcross, Georgia

As of 2010 Norcross had a population of 9,116. The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 40.8% white , 19.8% black or African American , 0.7% Native American, 2.1% Asian Indian, 10.7% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 21.5% from some other race and 4.3% reporting two or more races...

, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

 that developed software for personal computer

Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...

s from 1986 to 1994. The company was co-founded by Rod Roark and Gary Robertson.

Products

• PC-MOS: an MS-DOS
  MS-DOS
  MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...
  
  -like multiuser operating system with support for multi-tasking on serial terminals.
• PC-MOS/386
  PC-MOS/386
  PC-MOS/386 was a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system produced by The Software Link, announced at COMDEX in November 1986 for February 1987 release. It will run much MS-DOS software on the host machine or a terminal connected to it...
  
  : a later version of PC-MOS using features not present on processors prior to the 80386.
• LANLINK: a NetBIOS
  NetBIOS
  NetBIOS is an acronym for Network Basic Input/Output System. It provides services related to the session layer of the OSI model allowing applications on separate computers to communicate over a local area network. As strictly an API, NetBIOS is not a networking protocol...
  
  -ready local area network
  Local area network
  A local area network is a computer network that interconnects computers in a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, or office building...
  
   that leverages serial and parallel port
  Parallel port
  A parallel port is a type of interface found on computers for connecting various peripherals. In computing, a parallel port is a parallel communication physical interface. It is also known as a printer port or Centronics port...
  
   connected platforms
• MultiLink
  Multilink
  Multilink may refer to:*Multi-link suspension, a type of vehicle suspension design.*Multilink PPP, a type of communications protocal*Multilink Procedure*Multilink striping, a type of data striping used in telecommunications....
  
  : a multitasking environment for DOS
  DOS
  DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...
  
  

PC/MOS figured prominently in the lawsuit Arizona Retail Systems, Inc. v. The Software Link, Inc., where Arizona Retail Systems claimed The Software Link violated implied warranties on PC/MOS. The case is notable because The Software Link argued that it had disclaimed the implied warranties via a license agreement on the software's shrinkwrap licensing. The result of the case, which Arizona Retail Systems won, helped to establish US legal precedent about the enforceability or otherwise of shrinkwrap