Tim Paterson - Wikipedia
Tim Paterson (born 1 June 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known for creating 86-DOS, an operating system for the Intel 8086.
Tim Paterson | American computer programmer | Britannica
American computer programmer Timothy Paterson, a developer for Seattle Computer Products, wrote the original operating system for the Intel Corporation’s 8086 microprocessor in 1980, initially calling it QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), which was soon renamed 86-DOS.
Tim Patterson - Wikipedia
R. Timothy Patterson is a Canadian professor of geology, Chairman of the Department of Earth Sciences [1] at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and a researcher with specialization in paleolimnology, paleoceanography, and paleoclimatology.
Tim Paterson - Microsoft Wiki
Tim Paterson (born June 1, 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known for creating the framework for the MS-DOS operating system. 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...
Father of DOS Still Having Fun at Microsoft - Landley
Tim Paterson, original author of DOS, is in the eighth year of his current stint at Microsoft. From there, Microsoft's steep trajectory of success takes off, and the story of MS-DOS 1.0 and its descendants-eventually the most widely used computer program in the world-is well-known.
Biography - Professor Tim Patterson, Ph.D - Carleton University
Dr. Roy Timothy (Tim) Patterson is a Professor of Geology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He obtained his undergraduate degree in geology (1983) from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia under the tutelage of the late Professor Franco Medioli and Professor David B. Scott.
Tim Patterson writes QDOS, forerunner of the MS-DOS ...
Jan 1, 2000 · In April 1980, Tim Patterson of Seattle Computer Products in Tukwila, writes QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) for the Intel 8086 microprocesser (or chip), at the time the most advanced chip for desktop computers. QDOS is the forerunner of MS-DOS.
Tim Paterson - Computer Hope
Dec 1, 2019 · Name: Tim Paterson. Born: June 1, 1956. Computer-related contributions. Software engineer at SCP (Seattle Computer Products) (1978-1981). While at SCP, he designed and authored 86-DOS, an operating system for the 8086 computer kit developed by Intel. Left SCP in 1981 to work for Microsoft.
Microsoft bought Tim Paterson’s DOS for $75K; the rest is ...
May 1, 2015 · Tim Paterson, who wrote the disk operating system (DOS) that made Microsoft billions, cradles in his Issaquah home-office a printout of the DOS code he authored.
Fact: Microsoft Bought Their First Operating System MSDOS ...
Dec 9, 2023 · Tim Patterson, an engineer in this enterprise, had developed the operating system for six weeks, for internal purposes only. He named it QDOS – “Quick and Dirty Operating System”.