- Born
- Died
- Gary Kildall was born on May 19, 1942 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was married to Dorothy McEwen. He died on July 11, 1994 in Monterey, California, USA.
- SpouseDorothy McEwen(? - July 11, 1994) (his death)
- Besides being known as a co-host in The Computer Chronicles, Kildall was also known throughout the industry as the one behind the CP/M operating system, which among other things led to the microcomputer boom of the early 1980s and influenced 86-DOS, an operating system initially developed as a CP/M workalike and later spun-off as Microsoft's MS-DOS.
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