Gordon Eubanks

Organization leader

1946 –

22

Who is Gordon Eubanks?

Gordon Eubanks is an American microcomputer industry pioneer who worked with Gary Kildall in the early days of Digital Research.

Eubanks attended Oklahoma State University. Dr. Kildall was his graduate thesis advisor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Eubank's 1976 master's thesis was a BASIC language compiler called BASIC-E designed for Kildall's new CP/M operating system. Over the next year and a half, Eubanks wrote the popular CBASIC compiler for IMSAI while he was still a naval officer. Friends of Eubanks say he called it "CBASIC" because he wrote it while serving on a submarine. Other people say the name CBASIC referred to "commercial" basic, because it incorporated BCD math which eliminated MBASIC's rounding errors that were sometimes troublesome for accounting.

In 1981, after Microsoft moved from programming languages into operating systems, Digital Research improved its position in programming languages by acquiring Eubanks's company, Compiler Systems. Eubanks went to work at DRI, but he soon came to doubt the company's long-term prospects. In 1984, Eubanks joined Symantec and from 1984 to 1986 he helped develop Q & A, 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 business.

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Born
Nov 7, 1946
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Naval Postgraduate School
  • Oklahoma State University–Stillwater
Employment
  • Oracle Corporation

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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