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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 ).
Gary Kildall was born and grew up in Seattle, Washington, where his family operated a seafaring school.
His father, Joseph Kildall, was a captain of Norwegian heritage.
CP / M's quick success took Kildall by surprise, and he was slow to update it for high density floppy disks and hard disks.
Kildall was particularly annoyed when the University of Washington asked him, as a distinguished graduate, to attend their computer science program anniversary in 1992, but gave the keynote speech to Gates, a dropout from Harvard.
In March 1995, Kildall was posthumously honored by the Software Publishers Association ( now the Software and Information Industry Association ) for his contributions to the microcomputer industry:
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.
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.
( 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.
This general approach was developed by Gary Kildall while teaching at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Dr. Kildall was his graduate thesis advisor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Kildall and one
Kildall owned and flew his own Lear jet and had at least one boat on the lake.
Soon thereafter, Eubanks and Kildall invited Cooper to join them at digitalresearch. biz as one of four founders of their research and development department.

Kildall and first
Being within an hours ' drive of Silicon Valley, Kildall heard about the first commercially available microprocessor, the Intel 4004.

Kildall and microprocessors
Gary Kildall in 1972 for Intel for its microprocessors.

Kildall and computers
Kildall accepted, believing that IBM's new system ( like its previous personal computers ) would not be a significant commercial success.
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.

Kildall and company
Kildall and his wife Dorothy established a company, originally called " Intergalactic Digital Research " ( later renamed as Digital Research, Inc ), to market CP / M through advertisements in hobbyist magazines.
When Eubanks left the Navy, he joined Kildall ’ s successful operating system company, Digital Research, Inc., in Monterey.

Kildall and around
A legend grew around the fateful IBM-DRI meeting ( encouraged by Gates and various journalists ), suggesting that Kildall had irresponsibly taken the day off for a recreational flight, and he tired of constantly having to refute that story.

Kildall and concept
In response, Kildall pioneered the concept of a BIOS, a set of simple programs stored in the computer hardware which enabled CP / M to run on different systems without modification.

Kildall and .
Kildall briefly returned to UW and finished his doctorate in computer science in 1972, then resumed teaching at NPS.
After hardware manufacturers talked about creating a rival operating system, Kildall started a rush project to develop CP / M 2.
According to Kildall, the IBM representatives took the same flight to Florida that night that he and Dorothy took for their vacation, and they negotiated further on the flight, reaching a handshake agreement.
Kildall obtained a copy of PC-DOS, examined it, and concluded that it infringed on CP / M.
Instead Kildall only threatened IBM with legal action, and IBM responded with a proposal to offer CP / M-86 as an option for the PC in return for a release of liability.
After seeing a demonstration of the Apple Lisa, Kildall oversaw the creation of DRI's own graphical user interface, called Graphical Environment Manager ( GEM ) Desktop.
Novell acquired DRI in 1991 in a deal that netted millions for Kildall.
Kildall also pursued computing-related projects outside DRI.
Although Kildall preferred to leave the IBM affair in the past and to be known for his work before and afterward, he continually faced comparisons between himself and Bill Gates as well as fading memories of his contributions.
Harold Evans used the memoir as a source for a chapter about Kildall in the 2004 book They Made America, concluding that Microsoft had robbed Kildall of his inventions.
Selling DRI to Novell had made Kildall a wealthy man, and he moved to the West Lake Hills suburb of Austin.
On July 8, 1994, Kildall fell at a Monterey, California, biker bar and hit his head.

was and one
When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.
Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.
There was no one but me.
The pony herd was the one flaw in our defense ; ;
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.
The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;
only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.
In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
The one thing they had in common was their hatred.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.
But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.
That was another one of those traps.
At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.
All the doors were open at this hour except one, and it was toward this that Stevens made his way with Russ close at his shoulder.
An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??

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