Tim Paterson (born June 1, 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known for creating the framework for the MS-DOS operating system.
Background
After graduating magna cum laude in Computer Science in June 1978 from the University of Washington. he designed a schematic of Microsoft's Z-80 SoftCard which had a Z80 CPU and ran the CP/M operating system on an Apple II.[1]
A month later, with the release of the 8086 CPU, Paterson designed the S-100 8086 board, which could only run a standalone version of Microsoft BASIC, so to compensate he designed QDOS (Quick And Dirty Operating System), which was a rough port of CP/ API code, eventually called 86-DOS.[2] In December 1980, Microsoft secured marketing rights to 86-DOS, which would evolve into MS-DOS.[3]
He actively worked for Microsoft May 1981-1982 as a programmer, left to form Falcon Technology (bought by Microsoft in 1986),[4] then worked two more employment tenures with Microsoft Corporation from 1986 to 1988 and 1990 to 1998 respectively, writing the code for Visual Basic during this last term of employment.[1] Paterson is no longer employed by Microsoft.
Gallery
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Undocumented DOS: A programmer's guide to reserved MS-DOS functions and data structures (1 ed.). Addison-Wesley. 1990. ISBN 978-0-201-57064-9. ark:/13960/t14n8vs6f. Retrieved 2022-11-26. (xviii+694+viii pages, 2 5.25"-floppies) Errata: [1][2]
- ↑ "Technical advisors". The MS-DOS Encyclopedia: versions 1.0 through 3.2 (Completely reworked ed.). Redmond, Washington, USA: Microsoft Press. 1988. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-55615-049-4. LCCN 87-21452. OCLC 16581341. (xix+1570 pages; 26 cm) (NB. This edition was published in 1988 after extensive rework of the withdrawn 1986 first edition by a different team of authors.[3] While mostly based on DOS 3.2, this book has an appendix covering changes introduced with DOS 3.3.)
- ↑ "86-DOS version 0.3 (1980-11-15) License Agreement between Seattle Computer Products and Microsoft". 1981-01-06. Archived from the original on 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2013-04-01. (NB. Published as part of the Comes v. Microsoft case as exhibit #1.)
- ↑ "Microsoft buys major assets of Falcon, reclaims royalty-free MS-DOS license". Redmond, Washington, USA: Popular Computing, Inc., CW Communications, Inc.. 1986-09-29. p. 27. ISSN 0199-6649. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
External links
- Paterson Technology, a company founded by Tim Paterson (archived 2019-12-25)
- DosMan Drivel, Tim Paterson's blog at Blogger
- Tim Paterson at The History Of Computing Project (archived 2020-11-15)
- Tim Paterson at Wikipedia
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