Tim Paterson

Tim Paterson (born June 1, 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known as the original author of MS-DOS.

Quotes

 * IBM wanted CP/M prompts. It made me throw up.


 * Life begins with a disk drive.


 * We needed an operating system at Seattle Computer for our own computers and I wanted to do one. So we decided to go for it. I was waiting for Digital [Research] to come out with CP/M-86. I thought they would have it real soon. If they had beat me I wouldn't have taken the trouble. I had always wanted to write my own operating system. I've always hated CP/M and thought I could do it a lot better.