Gary Arlen Kildall was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur. During the 1970s, Kildall created the CP/M operating system among other operating systems and programming tools, and subsequently founded Digital Research, Inc. to market and sell his software products.
Kildall at the European Development Centre (EDC) in Hungerford, United Kingdom, 1988
Gary A. Kildall information plaque Pacific Grove, California, 801 Lighthouse Avenue
Digital Research house on 801 Lighthouse Ave, Pacific Grove, California. On the sidewalk, to the left, commemorative plaque.
CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. CP/M is a disk operating system and its purpose is to organize files on a magnetic storage medium, and to load and run programs stored on a disk. Initially confined to single-tasking on 8-bit processors and no more than 64 kilobytes of memory, later versions of CP/M added multi-user variations and were migrated to 16-bit processors.
CP/M advertisement in the 29 November 1982 issue of InfoWorld magazine
Apple CP/M Card with manual
CP/M Plus (CP/M 3) System Guide
DEC PRO-CP/M-80 floppy-disk distribution for the Z80-A co-processor in a DEC Professional 3xx series