Gary Kildall - Gary Kildall Gary Kildall (May 19, 1942 - July 11, 1994) was the creator of the CP/M operating system and GEM Desktop graphical user interface, and founder of Digital Research Corporation. Kildall received his PhD in computer science from the University of Washington in 1972. While working as an instructor for the US Navy in Monterey, California, he created implementations of the PL/I programming language for the Intel 4004 and 8008 CPUs. He referred to these versions as PL/M, M for microcomputer. In 1973, Kildall began work on a disk operating system in order to make PL/M a useful development environment, and ended up with CP/M. He founded Digital Research after his discharge from the Navy in 1976 and continued work on CP/M, which he originally.
Gary - Gary This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Place Name 2 Person Name 2.1 References Place Name Several places in the United States of America are called Gary (in decreasing population order): Gary, Indiana Gary, West Virginia Gary, Minnesota Gary, South Dakota There are other similarly-named towns: Gary City, Texas Garysburg, North Carolina Garyville, Louisiana GNIS also lists the following tiny (or uninhabited) towns: Gary, Colorado Gary, Florida Gary, Georgia Gary, Illinois Gary, Maryland Gary, New Mexico Gary, South Carolina Gary, Texas Gary, Virginia.
University of Washington - on the south by the Lake Washington Ship Canal. The University of Washington Medical Center occupies much of the south end of campus on land which used to be a golf course. There are also branch campuses in Tacoma and Bothell. The campus was also the site of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909; the layout of the fair permanently affected the layout of the campus. Notable UW Students and Alumni The Brothers Four Ted Bundy Dyan Cannon Dale Chihuly Beverly Cleary Chuck Close Imogen Cunningham Patrick Duffy Thomas Foley Dick Gordon Kenny G William H. Gates, Sr Ed Guthman Frank Herbert Gordon Hirabayashi David Horsey Henry M. Jackson Kitty Kelley Hank Ketcham (creator of the US comic strip Dennis the Menace) Gary Kildall Bruce Lee Mike Luckovich Kyle MacLachlan Warren G..
Digital Research - Intergalactic Digital Research) was the company created by Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/M operating system and related products. It was the first large software company in the microcomputer world, and their operating systems were the de-facto standard of their era as Microsoft Windows is today. The company was later purchased by Novell in 1991, primarily to gain access to the OS line. DRI's product suite included the original CP/M and its various offshoots; DR-DOS which was a MS-DOS compatible version of CP/M, and MP/M, the multi-user CP/M. They also produced a selection of programming languages for their platforms, including C, Pascal, COBOL, Forth and BASIC. They also produced a microcomputer version of the GKS graphics standard (related to NAPLPS) called GSX, and later used this as the basis.
1942 - In Warsaw, two Christian women, Zofia Kossak and Wanda Filipowicz risk their lives by setting up the Council for the Assistance of the Jews. DDT first used as a pesticide Ongoing events Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) Year in topic 1942 in art 1942 in film Mrs. Miniver Bambi Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman 1942 in literature 1942 in music "White Christmas" - Bing Crosby 1942 in sports 1942 in television April 13 - The FCC minimum programming time required of TV stations is cut from 15 hours to four hours a week during the war. Births January 1 - Gennadi Sarafanov, cosmonaut January 3 - John Thaw, actor (+ 2002) January 5 - Maurizio Pollini, pianist January 5 - Charlie Rose, talk show host January 7 - Paul Revere, singer.
Altair 8800 - connectors, and came across a supply of 100-pin edge connectors. The rest, as they say, is history. For all intents, the Altair bus consists of the pins of the Intel 8080 run out onto the backplane. No particular level of thought went into the design, which led to such disasters as various power lines of differing voltages being located next to each other, leading to easy shorting. Another oddity was that the system included two unidirectional 8-bit data buses, but only a single bidirectional 16-bit address bus. A deal on power supplies led to the use of +8v and +18v, which had to be "pulled down" on the cards to TTL (+5v) or RS-232 (+12v) levels. The Altair shipped in a two-piece case. The backplane and power supply were mounted on.
CP/M operating system - and Zilog Z80 based microcomputers. It was created by Digital Research, Inc founded by Gary Kildall. The combination of CP/M and S-100 bus computers patterned on the MITS Altair was the first "industry standard", and was widely used through the late 1970s and into the mid-80s. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Description 2 History 2.1 MS-DOS takes over 3 external links Description CP/M's command line interface, implemented in the CCP command processor, was patterned after the operating systems from Digital Equipment Corporation, such as RSTS/E for the PDP-11. Commands generally took the form of a keyword followed by a list of parameters separated by spaces or special characters. The commands themselves would sometimes be somewhat obscure; for instance, the command to duplicate files was named PIP (Peripheral-Interface-Program). One key innovation in.
QDOS - SCP-DOS. In late 1980, IBM was developing what would become the original IBM Personal Computer. CP/M was by far the most popular operating system in use at the time, and IBM felt it needed CP/M in order to compete. There are at least two rumors about why IBM ended up licensing QDOS instead of CP/M. One story is that Gary Kildall, of Digital Research and creator of CP/M (and subsequently DR-DOS) simply refused to answer the door when representatives from IBM rang his doorbell. However, the most prevalent story, and the one relayed by Bill Gates, is that when IBM approached Gary Kildall, author of CP/M, for a license, Kildall kept the IBM executives waiting for hours while he went flying in his airplane. He missed one of the great opportunities.
Peripheral Interchange Program - one of the dozens of utilities that resided on the PDP and DEC machines. As late as the mid 1970s, PIP was in common use, along-side its descendant. After Gary Kildall started CP/M, he took the PIP and file concepts as well. The protean utilities which move data can also be seen in the UNIX cp from to which also ran on the Teletype workstations of the early 1970s and which survive in MS-DOS..
May 19 - statesman (+ 1896) 1844 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (+ 1818) 1870 - Albert Fish, serial killer (+ 1936) 1882 - Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister (+ 1967) 1890 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader (+ 1969) 1891 - Oswald Boelcke, World War I fighter ace (+ 1916) 1897 - Frank Luke, World War I fighter ace (+ 1918) 1906 - Gerd Bucerius, publisher and publicist (+ 1995) 1908 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (+ 1982) 1909 - Bruce Bennett, actor 1914 - Go Seigen, Go player 1914 - Max Perutz, molecular biologist (+ 2002) 1921 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (+ 1999) 1924 - Sandy Wilson, British composer 1925 - Malcolm X, civil rights activist (+ 1965) 1925 - Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge leader(+ 1998) 1926 - Peter Zadek,.
List of people by name: Ki - Kiedis, Anthony, (born 1962), of the Red Hot Chili Peppers Kiefer, Anselm, (born 1945), painter Kienbusch, Wiliam, (1914-1980), American painter Kienzle, William X, (died 2001), novelist Kierkegaard, Søren, (1813-1855), Danish theological philosopher Kier, Udo, (born 1944), actor Kiesinger, Kurt Georg, (1904-1988), federal chancellor (CDU) Kieslowski, Krzysztof, (1941-1996), Polish-born movie director Kikoine, Michel,(1892-1968), painter Kilar, Wojciech, (born 1932), Polish composer Kilbride, Percy, (1888-1964), actor (Pa Kettle) Kilby, Jack Saint Claire, (born 1923) invented the integrated circuit Kildall, Gary, (1942-1997), computer programmer Kiley, Richard, (1922-1999), actor Kilgallen, Dorothy, (1913-1965), newspaper columnist, early television personality Killanin, Lord, (died 1999), International Olympic Committee head Killy, Jean-Claude, (born 1943), skier Kilmer, Joyce, (1886-1918), poet Kilmer, Val, (born 1959), US actor Kilmister, Lemmy, (born 1945), English musician Kilroy-Silk, Robert, (born 1943), British television presenter and former MP.
Joseph Gary - Joseph Gary Joseph Gary (July 9, 1821 - October 31, 1906) was best known as the judge who presided over the trial of eight anarchists tried for their alleged role in the Haymarket Riot. Born in Potsdam, New York, he worked as a carpenter, then moved to St. Louis in 1843 to study law, where he practiced for five years. In 1849 he moved to Las Vegas, which was then part of the New Mexico territory, then moved after three years to San Francisco, California, then to Berlin, Wisconsin, before moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1856. He became a judge in 1863. He presided over the Haymarket Square case in 1886, sentencing anarchists August Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fisher, George Engel, and Louis.
Gary Coleman - Gary Coleman Gary Coleman (born February 8, 1968) is an American actor. Born in Zion, Illinois, Coleman is most famous for the role of Arnold Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes in 1978. The show lasted until 1986. Coleman had a congenital kidney defect known as nephritis that has halted his growth leading to his notably small stature (4' 8"), which has become his visual and acting trademark. He has had two kidney transplants, one in 1973 and one in 1984 and requires constant dialysis. During the late-1970s and early-1980s, Coleman starred in a number of feature films and made-for-TV movies including On the Right Track, and the Kid With the Broken Halo. As he grew older, however, the value of his cuteness faded, and after the cancellation.
Gary Lineker - Gary Lineker Gary Winston Lineker OBE, (born 30 November, 1960), is ex-English international footballerer. Born in Leicester, he became probably the foremost English striker of his generation. Lineker's intelligence enabled him to cope better than his contemporaries whilst playing in continental Europe, as well as make a smooth transition into a role as pundit and sports broadcaster. He began his career at his hometown club of Leicester City in 1976 and broke into Leicester first-team squad in 1978. He rose to fame with Everton (1985-86), for whom he scored 30 goals in 41 games, before signing with Barcelona, with whom he won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1989. He returned to England later that year, playing for three seasons at Tottenham Hotspur, scoring 67 in.
Gary North - Gary North Gary North is one of the major writers and publishers of the Christian Reconstructionist movement. (He is the son-in-law of R. J. Rushdoony, one of the movement's founders). Christian Reconstructionists are postmillennialists, meaning they believe that Christ will return to earth only after conservative Christianity has become the religion of the majority of the planet with God's moral law as the civil standard for society. They believe that Old Testament moral and civil laws, such as those against adultery and sodomy and murder, should be presumed binding unless the New Testament says otherwise; this belief they call theonomy. Theologically, Gary North is a Calvinist. He is President of the Institute for Christian Economics, which now publishes Christian Reconstructionist books online. Christian Reconstructionists are also.
Gary, Indiana - Gary, Indiana Gary is a city located in Lake County in northwest Indiana in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 102,746. It borders Lake Michigan and is known for its large steel mills, emissions from which are often visible from Chicago across the Lake. The city was founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation as the home for its new plant. The city was named after the chairman of U.S. Steel, Elbert H. Gary. Gary's fortunes have risen and fallen with the US Steel. In the 1960s, Gary entered a downward spiral of decline brought on by layoffs at the steel plants. As unemployment increased, so did crime, taxes, property abandonment. Gary had.
Gary Snyder - Gary Snyder Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet and environmental activist. Often associated with the Beats, his work represents one of the most significant attempts to bridge the gap between nature and culture in 20th century literature. Early Life Snyder was born in San Francisco, but his family, impoverished by the Great Depression, moved to Washington State when he was two and to Portland, Oregon ten years later. In 1947, he started attending Reed College as a scholarship student. Here he met, and for a time roomed with, with Philip Whalen and Lew Welch. At Reed, Snyder published his first poems in a student journal. He also spent at least one summer working as a seaman. In 1951, he graduated with a.
Gary Gygax - Gary Gygax Ernest Gary Gygax (born 1938) is perhaps best known for co-writing, with Dave Arneson, and co-publishing, with Don Kaye, one of the best known role playing games: Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). He is also the author of the Gord the Rogue series. Gygax and Jeff Perren wrote Chainmail, the game from which D&D was developed, in the late 1960s. Gygax and Kaye founded publishing company Tactical Studies Rules (TSR) and published the first version of D&D in 1974. Gygax wrote a new version of D&D, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, which was published in 1977-9. As of 2003, Gygax continues to take an active role in D&D, and writes a section in Dragon Magazine. Another of his creations was DragonChess, a three-dimensional fantasy chess variant,.
Gary Powers - Gary Powers Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 - August 1, 1977) was an American military pilot. He joined the USAF in 1951. After completing his training he was assigned to the 468th Strategic Fighter Squadron at Turner Air Force Base, Georgia. He left the Air Force in 1956 to join the CIA U-2 program. On May 1, 1960 Powers left Peshawar, Pakistan in a U-2 spyplane, on a mission to photograph ICBM development sites in and around Sverdlovsk and Plesetsk in the Soviet Union. Attempts to intercept Powers' plane by Soviet fighters failed due to the U-2's extreme altitude, but eventually one of the 14 SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missiles launched at the plane managed to get close enough. The aircraft was badly damaged, and crashed.
Gary Busey - Gary Busey Gary Busey (born June 29, 1944) is an American film actor. Busey is notable for his striking looks, which have led to him being cast as a rebel of some sort in many of his films. His most noteworthy role is perhaps as Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story, for which he received an Oscar nomination. In his later years Busey has become obsessed with his health (perhaps as a result of a wild lifestyle as a youth), adhering to a strict exercise and diet regime in an attempt to maintain his physical and mental abilities..
