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Gary Kildall Special [PART 2 OF 3]

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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. He was also a co-host on the early Computer Chronicles series. Includes comments by Gordon Eubanks, Symantec; Tom Rolander, DRI; Tim Bajarin, Creative Strategies; Lee Lorenzen, DRI; Jacqui Morby, TA Associates; Alan Cooper, CP/M applications developer. Originally broadcast in 1995.

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  • CP/M will never die!

  • Kildall wrote the CP/M in 1973 using his PL/M programming language. It initially ran on the 8008 chip and was later ported to the 8080 chip. IBM actually turned to Kildall for an OS, but Kildall wasn't there. He very much missed out.

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  • Let's not mince words: Gary's wife blew the deal.

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