François Gernelle

François Gernelle (born December 20, 1944) is a French engineer, computer scientist and entrepreneur famous for inventing the first micro-computer using a micro-processor, the Micral N.[1] In the late 1960s, Gernelle earned an engineering degree at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.As his hierarchy didn't share his views on the i8008 development capacity, he resigned in 1972 and joined R2E, a company created and led by Paul Magneron.[2] He designed the Micral N micro-computer to answer a request of INRA[3][4] to measure agricultural hygrometry.But the company wanted him to design IBM PC compatible machines and François Gernelle didn't agree because he thought this machine was poorly designed, using an 8 bit single-tasking single-user i8088 powered by a poor operating system.In 1983, he resigned from Bull and founded a new company named FORUM International to create professional computers powered by Prologue OS.
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