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Tim Paterson
Born (1956-06-01) 1 June 1956 (age 67)
Alma materUniversity of Washington
Occupation(s)Computer programmer, software designer
Known forZ-80 SoftCard, 86-DOS, MSX-DOS

Tim Paterson (born 1 June 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known for creating 86-DOS, an operating system for the Intel 8086. This system emulated the application programming interface (API) of CP/M, which was created by Gary Kildall. 86-DOS later formed the basis of MS-DOS, the most widely used personal computer operating system in the 1980s.

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CHKDSK

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TENEX and TOPS-20. The CHKDSK command was first implemented in 1980 by Tim Paterson and included in Seattle Computer Products 86-DOS. The command is available...

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DOS

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File Allocation Table

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in Standalone Disk BASIC, MIDAS instead occupied 32 bytes per entry. Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP) was first introduced to Microsoft's...

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Bill Gates

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Comparison of assemblers

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ASCII

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Retrieved 2018-07-11. "XTerm Control Sequences". Retrieved 2024-01-17. Tim Paterson (2007-08-08). "Is DOS a Rip-Off of CP/M?". DosMan Drivel. Archived from...

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Paul Allen

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Microsoft to purchase QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) written by Tim Paterson who was employed at Seattle Computer Products. As a result of this transaction...

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Mark Zbikowski

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List of programmers

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bisimulation in concurrent computing Mike Paterson – algorithms, analysis of algorithms (complexity) Tim Paterson – authored 86-DOS (QDOS) Markus Persson...

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List of operating systems

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the United States 86-DOS (developed at Seattle Computer Products by Tim Paterson for the new Intel 808x CPUs; licensed to Microsoft, became PC DOS/MS-DOS...

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Social development theory

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Development, Zed Books , UK, 1994, p. 168. Coghlan, Simon; Miller, Tim; Paterson, Jeannie (2021-12-01). "Good Proctor or "Big Brother"? Ethics of Online...

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History of Microsoft

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IBM PC DOS

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employee Bob O'Rear with assistance from SCP (later Microsoft) employee Tim Paterson. O'Rear got 86-DOS to run on the prototype PC in February 1981. 86-DOS...

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History of personal computers

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(originally known as QDOS), an operating system similar to CP/M developed by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products. IBM rebranded the Microsoft version as...

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Timeline of DOS operating systems

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Comparison of file systems

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Phoenix Technologies

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Triumph of the Nerds

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