Innovative Routines International

IRI is an independent software vendor (ISV) specializing in high performance data sorting and manipulation software. The company was founded as Information Resources, Inc. of New York in May 1978. Its high performance sort specialists were the first to apply coroutine sort (CoSort) technology off the mainframe and onto personal computers -- CP/M 80 and 86 in 1980 and MS-DOS in 1982. CoSort was then the first commercial Unix sort package, developed in C on an AT&T 3B2 in 1985.