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| | Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - Gary Kildall |
 | | Were it not for Gary Kildall, inventor of CP/M (control program for microprocessors), a different OS (operating system) might be necessary for each brand of personal computer. | | | Growing up, Kildall became interested in various gadgets and he developed an interest in computer programming. | | | While at Intel, he determined the need for a computer OS that could control the storage and retrieval of information kept on 5.25-inch floppy diskette. |
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http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?guid=&searchtype=1&DicID=17435&RefType=Encyclopedia
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| | Gary Kildall California Digital |
| | Gary created PL/M (Programming Language /Microprocessor) to run on an IBM 360 computer and generate executable binary code that was then burned into the ROM memory of the 4004 system. | | | Gary was also the first person to work on the development of software for driving CD-ROM interfaces. | | | Gary received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1972 and joined the Navy. |
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http://www.cadigital.com/kildall.htm
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| | Who Made America? Innovators Gary Kildall |
| | Kildall's first effort was to create a programming language, PL/M, that could be used to write applications for microprocessors. | | | In 1973, Kildall wrote a software control program he called CP/M, which allowed files to be read and written to and from an eight inch floppy disk -- the first disk operating system for a microcomputer. | | | Kildall rewrote CP/M to be usable on different types of computers, innovating a system called BIOS, or Basic Input/Output System. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/kildall_hi.html
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| | The Online Software Museum |
| | Kildall's task at Intel that year was to design and develop a language called PL/M for the 8080 chip, to be used as a systems development language. | | | The plan was for Gary to use the 8080 emulator Intel had running on their big PDP-10 minicomputer, but he preferred to work directly on the 8080 itself, in part because by working on his own machine at home he could avoid the 50 mile drive to Intel to work every day. | | | By the end of 1975, Kildall at last had CP/M version 1.0 ready and had started on PL/M, but Intel was no longer interested in the systems development language by that time. |
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http://museum.sysun.com/museum/cpmhist.html
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| | Internet Archive: Details: Gary Kildall Special |
| | Gary co-hosted Computer Chronicles in its early years and Stewart Cheifet remarks that Gary was the rare combination of genius and gentleman. | | | A profile on computer pioneer Gary Kildall and the important contributions he made to the PC industry including the true story on how IBM ended up using MS-DOS rather than CP/M. Kildall developed CP/M, the first personal computer operating system. | | | Gary Kildall certainly deserves a far kinder assessment of his contributions to the personal computer that he has received to date. |
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http://www.archive.org/details/GaryKild
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| | Digital Research - SPA Award to Gary Kildall |
| | "Gary was a trailblazer for the computer industry. | | | Above all, Kildall shared his experience and enthusiasm for computers with others and wanted to make this technology available to everyone. | | | Kildall's biggest contribution to the software industry was the first successful open-system architecture. |
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http://www.digitalresearch.biz/kildallr.htm
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| | Gary Kildall Endowed Scholarship |
| | As a student at the University of Washington, Gary Kildall received three degrees: a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics in 1967, a Master's degree in Computer Science in 1968, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1972. | | | A pioneer in the computer revolution, Gary developed CP/M, which became the dominant microcomputer operating system of the 1970s. | | | He was one of the first people to recognize that even the early, simple microprocessors could support a complete minicomputer-style operating system, and he created an editor, assembler, linker, and loader, along with the first file system to use floppy disks as a general-purpose storage medium. |
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http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugradscholars/kildall.html
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| | Gary Kildall |
| | Kildall received his PhD in computer science from the University of Washington in 1972. | | | Gary Arlen Kildall (May 19, 1942 - July 11, 1994) was the creator of the CP/M operating system and GEM Desktop graphical user interface, and founder of Digital Research, Inc. | | | In March 1995, Kildall was posthumously honored by the Software Publishers Association (now the Software and Information Industry Association) for his contributions to the computer industry: |
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http://www.tristate.edu/faculty/barge/articles/gary_kildall.htm
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| | In the beginning Gary Kildall was born in Seattle on May 19,1942, and studied computer science at the University of Washington, eventually earning a Ph.D. He then took a post at the US. | | | Without Gary, the history of personal computers would have been unimaginably different. | | | Gary disliked business, saying in a 1981 interview that he hoped "just to support my computer habit" with the proceeds. |
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http://world.std.com/~jlr/doom/kildall.txt
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| | Gary Kildall and the origins of the PC |
| | Gary Kildall and the origins of the PC Join a tribute to Gary Kildall, one of the men who made the computer revolution possible because of his development of CP/M. technofile | | | Kildall wanted to use the thing that big computers used -- a flat disk. | | | Kildall had come up with CP/M -- Control Program/Monitor (he changed "Monitor" to "Microcomputer," once "microcomputer" entered the language) -- the first program that allowed a small computer to work with a disc drive. |
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http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts/cpm90.html
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| | DDJ, Spring97: Gary Kildall |
| | Gary realized, though, that he was missing an essential ingredient of a really useful computer system—an efficient storage medium. | | | The combination of the microprocessor and the floppy disk drive meant that, in Kildall's words, "It was no longer necessary to share computer resources." In other words, the elements of a personal computer were at hand. | | | Kildall was busy teaching computer science at the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. |
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http://www.maxframe.com/DR/Gary/DDJ-GK02.HTM
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| | MaxFrame Corporation Home |
| | Most people remember Gary for his technological achievements such as ground-breaking compiler research, pioneering work on CD-ROMs and of course, the first standard personal computer operating system, CP/M. However, what I admired in Gary, even more than his products, was his devotion to creating tools to help the world. | | | Scott, a software engineer, is Gary Kildall's son. | | | One of DDJ's 1996 recipients of its Excellence in Programming Award was the late Gary Kildall, who among his many contributions, wrote CP/M, the first operating system for personal computers. |
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http://www.maxframe.com/DR/Gary/9775b.htm
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| | Digital Research - Home |
| | Gary forever changed computing by laying the foundation for popular PC operating systems, but most importantly, Gary was the greatest teacher any of us who knew him and his work could ever have had. | | | He was born in 1942, a few years before the first electronic computer even existed, and his software made possible PC computing as we know it at the turn of the 20th century. | | | All of us who knew and loved Gary are dedicated to continuing his work, his dreams, and his collegial sharing and caring about people, while working to open new frontiers in software research and development for the benefit of all. |
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http://www.digitalresearch.biz
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| | Dave Farquhar's Silicon Underground - The almost-was Bill Gates |
| | Kildall was interested in computers, education, and helping people. | | | Maybe Kildall would have settled into the kind of role in Digital Research that Dave Cutler settled into at Microsoft: crucial to software development, but not especially visible, so he can do what he wants and be a hothead about it when he wants. | | | The other is that by the time Kildall really knew and could have presented his case, DOS had reached version 2.0 and was almost a complete rewrite and likely lacked any of that infringing code. |
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http://dfarq.homeip.net/article/20041019223506554
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| | The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates |
| | Legalities aside, Microsoft's original DOS was based in part on Kildall's CP/M. His insight was that by creating an operating system separate from the hardware, applications could run on computers that were made by different manufacturers. | | | The last straw was when the University of Washington in 1992 invited Kildall to attend the 25th anniversary of its computer science program. | | | Early on, Kildall seemed to represent the best hopes of the nascent computer industry. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_43/b3905109_mz063.htm
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| | I had the honor of working with Gary Kildall in the later half of 1976 and early 1977 in implementing various permutations of rev. 1.2 and 1.3 on the IMSAI FDC and DIO floppy systems. | | | Clearly Seymour was not the first to contact Gary, though he did work out the business deal. | | | For those with an interest, I've always maintained that IMSAI was the first company to offer CP/M for 8080-based floppy systems. |
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http://www.imsai.net/history/imsai_history/cp-m_history.htm
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| | CP/M |
| | CP/M was created back about 1975 by Gary Kindall, a consultant for Intel who was developing a language called PL/M for their brand-new 8080 chip. | | | I never did understand why Gary didn't just take the logic and rewrite it into good 8080 assembler - it wouldn't have taken all that long and would have made all the difference in the world when changes were to be made. | | | Kindall had CP/M 1.0 ready by about the end of 1975 but Intel decided that they were too busy making 8080 chips to bother with software, a fact that Intel probably regrets to this day. |
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http://www.interparse.com/microcomputer/cpm.html
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| | MacKiDo/History/History_DrDos |
| | Gary Kildall had seen that GUI's (Graphical User Interfaces) were the way of the future, and he decided to create one. | | | The founder, Gary Kildall, created the first Disk Operating System for Microcomputers called CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers). | | | Since Seattle Computing hadn't made any real money on the deal, DR was not going to get any reasonable damage award, and Digital Research could not fight IBM. |
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http://www.mackido.com/History/History_DrDos.html
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| | Microprocessor Report: Gary Kildall, industry pioneer, dead at 52: created first microcomputer languages, disk ... |
| | Gary Kildall, industry pioneer, dead at 52: created first microcomputer languages, disk operating systems. | | | Microprocessor Report: Gary Kildall, industry pioneer, dead at 52: created first microcomputer languages, disk operating systems.@ HighBeam Research | | | He was there every step of the way, conceiving the products, designing the algorithms, and debugging... |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:16279046&refid=holomed_1
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| | Gary Kildall |
| | He got his PhD from the University of Washington, and was then an associate professor of computer science at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. | | | Kildall brought up the first serious programming language on it, PL/I, and in 1973 started work on CP/M | | | Here's a savage take on Microsoft's anti-competitive tactics against Digital Research, as described by the lawyers for DR-DOS's current owners, Caldera: Caldera Statement of Facts DR-DOS is now being pushed as a tight little OS for use in embedded products. |
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http://world.std.com/~jlr/doom/kildall.htm
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| | Biography - Gary Kildall |
| | He received a PhD in computer science in the University of Washington in 1972, when computer science was still a new field. | | | In 1976, Kildall and his wife founded the company called Intergalatic Digital Research, later renamed Digital Research, Inc. This company was a research and mail-order sales company which designed and marketed software for personal computers. | | | Kildall improved his operating system to support multitasking, the creation of the file system and data structures of the CD-ROM, and the creation of an interface to the video disk to allow automatic nonlinear playback. |
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http://www.rit.edu/~jhm2060/imm/project1/biography.html
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| | Gary's Revenge |
| | As you might remember from last month's Troubleshooting Professional, Gary Kildall's Digital Research was one of the first victims of Microsoft. | | | And you might remember I insinuated that that the error messages and difficulties running Windows over DR-DOS were suspicious. | | | Linux desktop powerhouse Caldera bought the rights to DR-DOS, turned around and sued Microsoft for exactly what I suspected. |
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http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/199906/_garys_revenge.htm
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| | Gary Kildall in England |
| | This excellent book, created in tandem with a four part PBS series, dedicates an entire chapter to the important contributions that Gary has made to the computer revolution and the history of his conflict with Bill Gates. | | | To his right are Andy Wightman, head of engineering at the EDC, Gary and Jenny Shelton, one of the EDC engineers. | | | Gary is having a chat with Dieter Giesbrecht who first headed DR Germany and later all of DR Europe. |
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http://www.joewein.de/gary.html
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