The Computer History Museum has released part of the memoir of Gary Kildall. Kildall founded Digital Research, Inc., co-hosted The Computer Chronicles on television and wrote CP/M, the first operating system for personal computers. The extract from his memoir Computer Connections can be downloaded after agreeing to a lengthy EULA (Javascript required). It was provided by Kildall's family, who wrote
We have chosen to release only the first portion of his memoir. Unfortunately Gary's passion for life also manifested in a struggle with alcoholism, and we feel that the unpublished preface and later chapters do not reflect his true self.
In related news, a presentation comparing the source code of MS-DOS to that of CP/M will be given at the museum, in Mountain View, California, on Saturday during the Vintage Computer Festival.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @08:33AM
OK then oldtimer, what longwinded or stupid name are you going to call it, if not Doc-tor-Dos? Di-gi-tal-Re-search-Dos? Di-gi-tal-Dos? Dee-Arr-Dos? Durr-Dos?