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Probably Gary Kildal, he wrote CP/M to help himself develop the PL/M compiler for Intel. He offered to give CP/M to them too, but they didn't want it "we make chips not computers". So he left and started his own company. Eventually Intel realized they did need an OS and developed ISIS (but thats a different story).

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