Digital Research, a now defunct microcomputer operating system (CP/M, DR-DOS) vendor founded by Gary Kildall
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In Digital Research terminology, the kernel component of the operating system is called the BDOS (Basic Disk Operating System), a term originally coined by Gary Kildall in 1975 for CP/M, but which is continued to be used in all other DRI operating systems.
The term was originally coined by Gary Kildall's in 1975 for CP/M, but is also used to describe a similar component or layer in other operating systems by Digital Research, IBM, Microsoft
He is currently pursuing research on long term digital archiving as the Digital Research Director at the Long Now Foundation.
Digital Research had promised to deliver an 8086 version their CP/M operating system by December 1979 but missed that date.
In 1964, he became a programmer with Fairchild Semiconductor, followed by a position as computer designer in the Digital Research Department, where he co-patented “Symbol,” a high-level language computer.