The term BIOS ( Basic Input / Output System ) was invented by Gary Kildall and first appeared in the CP / M operating system in 1975, describing the machine-specific part of CP / M loaded during boot time that interfaces directly with the hardware ( a CP / M machine usually has only a simple boot loader in its ROM ).

Gary Arlen Kildall ( May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994 ) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP / M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc. ( DRI ).

* Kildall, Gary ( 1973 ).

Interview: Gordon Eubanks, Former Student & CEO of Oblix, Inc., Recollections of Gary Kildall.

" Gary Kildall, 52, Crucial Player In Computer Development, Dies ", New York Times, July 13, 1994, p. D19.

* " Special Edition: Gary Kildall ".

" Gary Kildall and Collegial Entrepreneurship ".

* The Gary Kildall Legacy by Sol Libes

* Gary Kildall and Collegial Entrepreneurship by Michael Swaine

** Gary Kildall, American computer scientist ( d. 1994 )

CP / M ( Control Program / Monitor ) was a mass-market operating system created for Intel 8080 / 85 based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc.

Digital Research, Inc. ( aka DR or DRI ; originally Intergalactic Digital Research ) was the company created by Dr. Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP / M operating system and related products.

* Gary Kildall, scientist and founder of Digital Research

After learning about the deal, Digital Research founder Gary Kildall threatened to sue IBM for infringing DRI's intellectual property, and IBM agreed to offer CP / M-86 as an alternative operating system on the PC to settle the claim.

Other contributors included Jef Raskin, later credited as a leader in the Macintosh development, and Gary Kildall, who had created CP / M, the first disk operating system for microcomputers which was not married to proprietary hardware.

When Digital Research founder Gary Kildall examined PC DOS and found that it duplicated CP / M's programming interface, he wanted to sue IBM, which at the time claimed that PC DOS was its own product.

* The Computer Chronicles ( broadcast in 1984 )-Adam Osborne is interviewed by Stewart Cheifet and Gary Kildall

Gary Kildall, who developed CP / M, based much of the design of its file structure and command processor on operating systems from Digital Equipment, such as RSTS / E for the PDP-11.

( While an earlier version of CMS was uncharitably described as " CP / M on a mainframe ", the comparison is an anachronism ; the author of CP / M, Gary Kildall, was an experienced CMS user.

Eubanks wrote CBASIC ’ s precursor, BASIC-E as a student project while at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California with professor Gary Kildall.

Gary Kildall ), Michael Swaine

Gary Kildall in 1972 for Intel for its microprocessors.

In 1977, IMSAI marketing director Seymour I. Rubinstein paid Gary Kildall $ 25, 000 for the right to run CP / M version 1. 3, which eventually evolved into an operating system called IMDOS, on IMSAI 8080 computers.

This general approach was developed by Gary Kildall while teaching at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Gary Player, the small, trim South African, was the eventual winner, but in all his 25 years he never spent a more harrowing afternoon as he waited for the victory to drop in his lap.

In 1987, there was media speculation Clinton would enter the race after then-New York Governor Mario Cuomo declined to run and Democratic front-runner Gary Hart withdrew owing to revelations of marital infidelity.

Martin Noth was of the opinion that it dated from the 3rd century BCE, and Gary Knoppers, while acknowledging that Chronicles theoretically could be written anywhere between 500 and 250 BCE, tends to see it as probably dating between 325 and 275 BCE.

Gary Larson's The Far Side was unusual, as there were no central characters.

These were expanded by Gary Gygax, whose additions included a fantasy supplement, before the game was published as Chainmail.

From the 1960s through the end of the century Gary Karr was the leading proponent of the double bass as a solo instrument and was active in commissioning or having hundreds of new works and concerti written especially for him.

Garden Ghouls Gazette – a 1960s horror title under the editorship of Dave Keil, then Gary Collins — was later headed by the late Frederick S. Clarke and in 1967 became the respected journal Cinefantastique.

Gary Desmond's Candy's Room, coming from Liverpool, was the first in 1980, quickly followed by Dan French's Point Blank, Dave Percival's The Fever, Jeff Matthews ' Rendezvous, and Paul Limbrick's Jackson Cage.

Gary Wayne Coleman ( February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010 ) was an American actor, known for his childhood role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes ( 1978 – 1986 ) and for his small stature as an adult.

Around the same time he was living in Denver, Colorado, where he hosted a show at local radio station KHIH on Sunday nights called " Gary Coleman's Colorado High ", where he played light jazz and new age music.

Coleman's former manager Dion Mial was involved initially, but withdrew after Coleman's 1999 will, which named Mial as executor and directed that his wake be "... conducted by those with no financial ties to me and can look each other in the eyes and say they really cared personally for Gary Colemen ", turned out to be superseded by a later one replacing Mial with Gray, and directing "... that there be no funeral service, wake, or other ceremony memorializing my passing.

The population of Gary proper was 80, 294 at the time of the 2010 census, making it the seventh-largest city in the state of Indiana.

Gary, Indiana was founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation as the home for its new plant.

The city was named after the lawyer and founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, Elbert Henry Gary.

Gates's impression of the story was that Gary capriciously " went flying ," as he would later tell reporters.

Ernest Gary Gygax ( ; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008 ) was an American writer and game designer best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons ( D & D ) with Dave Arneson.

Gary Gygax was born in Chicago within a few blocks of Wrigley Field on July 27, 1938.

Francis Gary Powers ( August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977 ) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.

Powers was survived by his wife, two children, Dee and Francis Gary Powers Jr., and five sisters.

On December 9, 2009, it was announced that Gary Busey and girlfriend Steffanie Sampson were expecting their first child in May 2010.