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Gary Kildell
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The 4004 was Intel's first microprocessor in the world.
He was hired as a consultant to create a programming language for the device,he developed the PL/M (Programming Language/ Microprocessor).It was to run the IBM 360 computer and generate excutable binary code that then burned into the ROM memory of the 4004 system. -
The designer of the 8008 computer microprocessor.
Marcian Ted Hoff designer of the 4004, also made the first 8008, 8-bit microprocessor. He was again hired to develop PL/M for Intel's 8008 computer. -
Gary Kildall
Gary recieved a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Washington. While in school he worked on the computer system called DEC PDP_ 10 -
Joined the Navy
While in the Navy he was appointed to instruct in computer science at the Post- Graduate School in Monterey California. At the school he purchased an Intel 4004 microprocessor chip set for his students to experiment with. -
Intel's 8 inch floppy disc.
Shugart gave Intel a sample 8 inch floppy disc. Gary and his students then built a controller interface to an Intellec-80. They wrote a program that was called CP/M ( Control Program/ Micro computer) which was enabled to read and write files to and from the disc. -
The computer of the 80's
The first cp/m was made by him. -
Created in 1999 was the IMS LTD. REAL/32
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Discharged from the Navy.
He became a full time consultant, using the name Intergalactic Digital Research. With the help of Torode they designed floppy disc systems for several micro computer manufacturers.
