Tim Paterson, Date of Birth

Tim Paterson

American computer programmer, best known as the original author of MS-DOS

Date of Birth: 01-Jun-1956

Profession: businessperson, computer scientist, programmer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Tim Paterson (born 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.