Gordon Eubanks
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Gordon Eubanks | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 7, 1946 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | BASIC-E, CBASIC |
| Spouse | Ronda Eubanks |
| Children | Keith Eubanks |
Gordon Edwin Eubanks, Jr.[1][2] (born November 7, 1946) is an American microcomputer industry pioneer who worked with Gary Kildall in the early days of Digital Research (DRI).
Eubanks attended
IMSAI while he was still a naval officer.[4][3] Friends of Eubanks say he called it "CBASIC" because he wrote it while serving on a submarine (at sea). Other people say the name CBASIC referred to "commercial" basic,[4][3] because it incorporated BCD mathematics which eliminated MBASIC's rounding errors that were sometimes troublesome for accounting
.
In 1981, after
anti-virus
business.
He left in 1999 to become president and CEO of
Oblix, a Silicon Valley company producing software for web security. Oblix was acquired by Oracle in March 2005. Eubanks is a director of Concur and joined the board of directors of Oakley Networks
in February 2006.
Eubanks is a stamp collector. A specialist of the first stamps issued nationally in the United States between 1847 and 1861. For two collections he exhibited, he won the American Philatelic Society's title of "champion of champions" in 2012 and 2014.[5]
Eubanks is married to Ronda Eubanks, and has a son, Keith, as of January 1995.
References
- ^ a b c Eubanks, Jr., Gordon Edwin (December 1976). A Microprocessor Implementation of Extended Basic (PDF) (Master thesis). Monterey, California, USA: Naval Postgraduate School. hdl:10945/17862. Retrieved 2021-12-11. (194 pages)
- ^ Digital Research, Inc.: 1, 7. November 1981. Fourth Quarter. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
- ^ a b c d e Kildall, Gary Arlen (2016-08-02) [1993]. Kildall, Scott; Kildall, Kristin (eds.). "Computer Connections: People, Places, and Events in the Evolution of the Personal Computer Industry" (Manuscript, part 1). Kildall Family. Archived from the original on 2016-11-17. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
- ^ a b c d e Shustek, Len (2016-08-02). "In His Own Words: Gary Kildall". Remarkable People. Computer History Museum. Archived from the original on 2016-12-17. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
- ^ "Champion of champions", American Philatelic Society; retrieved 16 April 2016.
Further reading
- Huitt, Robert; Eubanks, Gordon; Rolander, Thomas "Tom" Alan; Laws, David; Michel, Howard E.; Halla, Brian; Wharton, John Harrison; Berg, Brian; Su, Weilian; Kildall, Scott; Kampe, Bill (2014-04-25). Laws, David (ed.). "Legacy of Gary Kildall: The CP/M IEEE Milestone Dedication" (PDF) (video transscription). Pacific Grove, California, USA: Computer History Museum. CHM Reference number: X7170.2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-12-27. Retrieved 2020-01-19. [1][2](33 pages)
External links
- Transcript of Gordon Eubanks oral history.
- Face to Face: Gordon Eubanks (ZDNet video)
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