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Gary Kildall founded which company to develop CP/M, the operating system that dominated early 1980s business computing?
Answer
Digital Research
Gary Kildall founded Digital Research in 1974, and its CP/M operating system became the standard for early microcomputers used in business before IBM's PC shifted the industry toward MS-DOS.
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CP/M dominated business computing in the 1980s, but IBM's choice of MS-DOS over it cost Digital Research founder Gary Kildall his billion-dollar fortune.
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- Seattle Computer Products
- Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS)
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- operating-systems
- 1980s
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