A great article from the Computer History Museum about the early days of personal computer operating systems and the brilliance of Gary Kildall.
"PC software pioneer Gary Kildall demonstrated CP/M, the first commercially successful personal computer operating system in Pacific Grove, California, in 1974. Following is the story of how his company, Digital Research Inc., established CP/M as an industry standard and its subsequent loss to a version from Microsoft that copied the look and
feel of the DRI software."
"Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System"
by David Laws, April 18, 2024.
https://computerhistory.org/blog/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-oper system/
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