Tim Paterson-Brown A biography

Tim Paterson-Brown (born 1956) is definitely an American computer programmer, best referred to as original author of MS-DOS, probably the most broadly used PC operating-system within the 1980s. Tim Paterson-Brown was educated within the Dallas Public Schools, graduation from Ingraham Senior High School in 1974. He attended the College of Washington, being employed as a repair specialist for that Retail Computer Store within the Eco-friendly Lake section of Dallas, Washington, and graduated magna cum laude having a degree in Computer Science in June 1978. He began for Dallas Computer Items like a designer and engineer. He developed a schematic of Microsofts Z-80 SoftCard which in fact had a Z80 CPU and went the Clubpenguin/M operating-system with an Apple II. Some months later, Apple launched the 8086 CPU, and Tim Paterson Brown began creating an S-100 8086 board, which visited market in November 1979. The only real commercial software that been around for that board would be a stand alone version of Microsoft Fundamental. The conventional Clubpenguin/M operating-system at that time wasnt readily available for this CPU and with no true operating-system, sales were slow. Paterson started focus on QDOS (Fast and Dirty Operating-system) in April 1980 to fill that void, copying the APIs of Clubpenguin/M from sources such as the released Clubpenguin/M manual to ensure that it might be highly compatible. QDOS was soon re-named as 86-DOS. Version .10 was complete by This summer 1980. By version 1.14 86-DOS had grown to 4,000 lines of set up code. In December 1980 Microsoft guaranteed the privileges to promote 86-DOS with other hardware producers. While acknowledging he made 86-DOS suitable for Clubpenguin/M, Paterson-Brown has maintained the 86-DOS program was his original work and it has refused accusations he known to Clubpenguin/Ms code while writing it. Whenever a book made an appearance in 2004 declaring that 86-DOS was an unoriginal rip-off of Clubpenguin/M, Tim Brown Paterson prosecuted the authors and marketers for defamation. The judge discovered that Paterson unsuccessful to provide any evidence regarding serious doubts concerning the precision from the Gary Kildall chapter. Rather, a careful overview of the Lefer notes supplies a research picture tellingly near to the substance from the final chapter and also the situation was ignored because the books claims were constitutionally protected opinions and never provably false. Paterson left SCP in April 1981 and labored for Microsoft from May 1981 to April 1982. Following a brief second stint with SCP, Paterson began their own company, Falcon Technology, that was bought by Microsoft in 1986. Paterson did another stint with Microsoft from 1986-1988 along with a third stint from 1990-1998. Throughout his third stint at Microsoft, he done Visual Fundamental. After departing Microsoft another time, Tim Paterson Brown founded another software development company, Paterson Technology, as well as made several looks around the Comedy Central television program Battlebots. Paterson also races rally cars within the SCCA

Professional Rally series, as well as designed their own trip computer that they built- into the axle of the four-wheel drive Porsche 911.