[dba-Tech] Gary Kildall Finally Gets His Due

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sat Apr 26 22:43:40 CDT 2014


Even better was C/CPM. 

Ran it on several "networked"*  ICL Quattro's back on the mid '80s

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=852

*using serial communications over a cable with line drivers between two buildings several 
hundred meters apart..

That's where I cut my teeth on relational database development and Dataflex (aong with word 
processing with Wordstar)

-- 
Stuart


On 26 Apr 2014 at 12:48, Arthur Fuller wrote:

> *"GeekWire reports that Gary Kildall
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall>, the creator of the
> landmark personal computer operating system CP/M, will be recognized
> posthumously by the IEEE for that contribution
> <http://www.geekwire.com/2014/real-inventor-uws-gary-kildall-father-pc
> -os-recognized-landmark-contributions/>, in addition to his invention
> of BIOS, with a rare IEEE Milestone plaque
> <http://news.cs.washington.edu/2014/01/25/ieee-to-honor-uw-cse-alumnus
> -gary-kildall-with-milestone/>.*
> 
> I started with CP/M, and thought it superior to DOS in several ways.
> -- Arthur _______________________________________________ dba-Tech
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