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Top: Computers: History: Pioneers: Kildall,_Gary

Born May 19th, 1942. Died 1994.

The creator of the CP/M operating system and founder of Digital Research.

Gary was the first person to interface a disk system to a microcomputer and create an operating system for it. He changed what had previously been a circuit designed for process control applications into a fully functional computer.


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