Tim Paterson
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Biography
Tim Paterson 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.
"IBM wanted CP/M prompts. It made me throw up."
"Life begins with a disk drive."
"We needed an operating system at Seattle Computer..."