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Incomplete memoir of Gary Kildall released (CP/M)

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Gary Kildall was a pioneer of personal computer software. He wrote
 programming language tools including assemblers (Intel 4004),
 interpreters (BASIC), and compilers (PL/M). He created a
 widely-used disk operating system (CP/M). He and his wife,
 Dorothy McEwen, started a successful company called Digital
 Research to develop and market CP/M, which for years was the
 dominant operating system for personal microcomputers. Thousands
 of programs were written to run under it, and a million or more
 people might have used it.

In other CHM blog posts we have told the story of Digital Research
 and CP/M by celebrating its 40th anniversary, and releasing the
 source code. The influence on the nascent personal computer
 industry was profound.

But what do we know about the man who created all this? Kildall
 died in 1994, at the young age of 52. He never published an
 autobiography, and there are no book-length biographies.

There is more, however. In 1993, the year before his untimely
 death, Gary wrote a draft of a memoir titled “Computer
 Connections: People, Places, and Events in the Evolution of the
 Personal Computer Industry.” He distributed bound copies to
 family and friends, with a note that it “will go to print in
 final form early next year.” It never did.

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Incomplete memoir of Gary Kildall released (CP/M) RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-08-04 14:58 -0400
  Re: Incomplete memoir of Gary Kildall released (CP/M) Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-08-04 21:06 +0100
    Re: Incomplete memoir of Gary Kildall released (CP/M) Batchman <batchman@fastmail.fm> - 2016-08-07 09:34 +1000
      Re: Incomplete memoir of Gary Kildall released (CP/M) Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-08-07 14:04 +0100
        Re: Incomplete memoir of Gary Kildall released (CP/M) Batchman <batchman@fastmail.fm> - 2016-08-09 09:44 +1000
  Re: Incomplete memoir of Gary Kildall released (CP/M) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-08-05 01:22 +0300
  Re: Incomplete memoir of Gary Kildall released (CP/M) Caecilius <nospam@spamless.invalid> - 2016-08-07 11:36 +0100
  Re: Incomplete memoir of Gary Kildall released (CP/M) Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> - 2016-08-10 00:57 +0000

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