Gordon Eubanks

Gordon Eubanks (b. November 7, 1946) is a microcomputer industry pioneer who worked with Gary Kildall in the early days of Digital Research. Dr. Kildall was his graduate thesis advisor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA and supervised Eubank's writing of a compiler for Kildall's new CP/M operating system in 1976. Later that year Eubanks wrote the popular C-Basic compiler for IMSAI, while he was still a naval officer. Friends of Eubanks say he call it C-Basic because he wrote it while serving on a submarine (at sea). Other people say the name C-Basic referred to commercial basic, because it incorporated BCD math which eliminated MBasic's rounding errors that were sometimes troublesome for accounting. In 1981 he sold his company, Compiler Systems, to Digital Research and went to work for them. In 1984 Eubanks joined Symantec and from 1984–1986 he helped develop Q & A Write, an integrated database and wordprocessor with natural language query. He went on to become president and CEO of Symantec, guiding it into the software utility and anti-virus businesses until his departure in 1999. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links GordonEubanksRGB1. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links GordonEubanksRGB1. ... Jump to: navigation, search November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 54 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Apple IIc Hi class Although there is no rigid definition, a microcomputer (sometimes shortened to micro) is most often taken to mean a computer with a microprocessor (µP) as its CPU. Another general characteristic of these computers is that they occupy physically small amounts of space. ... Gary Kildall standing in front of his car. ... Digital Research, Inc. ... The Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, United States is a graduate school operated by the United States Navy. ... The Customs House at Monterey View of Monterey Bay and its kelp A sea lion rookery at the marina Museum interior with ship models and equipment Kelp Forest display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Monterey is a city near the Pacific coast in northern California. ... CP/M is an operating system created for Intel 8080/85 and Zilog Z80 based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The IMSAI 8080 microcomputer, manufactured by IMS Associates, Inc. ... Jump to: navigation, search Binary-coded decimal (BCD) is, after character encodings, the most common way of encoding decimal digits in computing and in electronic systems. ... MBASIC is the Microsoft BASIC implementation of the BASIC programming language for the CP/M operating system on the 8-bit Intel 8080 processor. ... Accountancy (British English) or accounting (American English) is the process of maintaining, auditing, and processing financial information for business purposes. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC), founded in 1982, is an information security company headquartered in Cupertino, California that now specializes in computer security and antivirus software. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Anti-virus software consists of computer programs that attempt to identify, thwart and eliminate computer viruses and other malicious software (malware). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1999(MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

External links

• Transcript of Gordon Eubanks oral history. (PDF file)