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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 ).
Kildall was one of the first people to see microprocessors as fully capable computers rather than equipment controllers and to organize a company around this concept.
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.
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 him
Perhaps the most sensational claim comes from Jerry Pournelle, who claims that Kildall personally demonstrated to him that DOS contained CP / M code by entering a command in DOS that displayed Kildall's name ; as of 2006 Pournelle has not revealed the command and nobody has come forward to corroborate his story.

Kildall and their
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.
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 computer
Kildall briefly returned to UW and finished his doctorate in computer science in 1972, then resumed teaching at NPS.
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.
** Gary Kildall, American computer scientist ( d. 1994 )

Kildall and Gates
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.
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 from
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.

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Being within an hours ' drive of Silicon Valley, Kildall heard about the first commercially available microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
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.
After hardware manufacturers talked about creating a rival operating system, Kildall started a rush project to develop CP / M 2.
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.
Kildall accepted, believing that IBM's new system ( like its previous personal computers ) would not be a significant commercial success.
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.
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.
Kildall owned and flew his own Lear jet and had at least one boat on the lake.
On July 8, 1994, Kildall fell at a Monterey, California, biker bar and hit his head.

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And while he was ever alert for game, and most particularly a tiger, Penny marvelled at the Eden they were traversing.
This was particularly true in the world arena, which was an anarchical battleground characterized by strife and avaricious competition for colonial empires.
When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.
A particularly galling phrase was `` O.K., Panyotis, we have time at our disposal ''.
The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.
He was a learned and brilliant man, one of the best jurists in Europe and with flashes of penetrating insight, and yet in his dealings with other people, particularly when he tried to be ingratiating, he was capable of an abysmal stupidity that can have come only from a complete incomprehension of human nature and human motives.
Almost inevitably, the first result of this technological revolution was a reaction against the methods and in many cases the conclusions of the Oxford school of Stubbs, Freeman and ( particularly ) Green regarding the nature of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain.
In light of the scholarly reappraisals engendered by the higher criticism this is a most remarkable statement, particularly coming from one who was well known for his antifundamentalist views.
Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.
The audience was fond of Harry Hawk, he was a dear, in or out of character, but he was not particularly funny.
What made these new location figures particularly impressive was the fact that although 1960 was a year of mild business recession throughout the nation, Rhode Island scored marked progress in new industry, new plants, and new jobs.
This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.
The new work was a boon to the partnership, not only for its own value but particularly for the stimulation it provided to the imagination of J. R. Brown toward yet further developments for production equipment.
One of the many things that was so nice about her was that she always took your questions seriously, particularly your very, very serious questions.
It is quite likely that an even greater area was covered, particularly downwind.
This was particularly noticeable in group A and group B sera, in which cases activity in Regions 1 and 2 was usually not detectable without prior concentration and occasionally could not be detected at all.
The autofluorescence from the walls of the xylem cells was particularly brilliant.

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