Gary Kildall was born and grew up in Seattle, Washington, where his family operated a seamanship school. His father, Joseph Kildall, was a captain of Norwegian heritage.

Fifty years ago, in Pacific Grove, in the tool shed of a house on Bayview, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School named Gary Kildall wrote the software that ignited the personal computer...

Jul 14, 1994 · Seattle native and software pioneer Gary Kildall, who died Monday at age 52, never let on publicly how he felt about losing dominance of the personal computer industry to hometown rival Bill...

Aug 2, 2016 · Gary Kildall was a pioneer of personal computer software. He wrote programming language tools, including assemblers (Intel 4004), interpreters (BASIC), and compilers (PL/M).

A technology industry urban legend claims that Kildall went flying rather than meet with IBM, thus causing IBM to market Microsoft's inferior operating system, changing the course of computer...

Dr. Dobb’s Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia, 1980) Suggested reading: “Programmers at Work” by Susan Lammers (1986) Learn more: Gary Kildall entry at the Computer History Museum

Gary Kildall was one of the true architects of the personal computer era. A brilliant programmer, systems thinker, and early advocate for high-level microcomputer tools, he created one of the first widely used …

Gary Kildall changed the world in ways that we can never fully understand or appreciate. This site is dedicated to Gary and his accomplishments. We all hear about Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack …

Gary Kildall, a pioneering computer scientist who created the first popular operating system for personal computers, died on Monday at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in...

Gary Arlen Kildall (May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994) was a computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur. Born to parents Joseph and Emma Kildal, Gary studied math at the University of …