Tom Rolander | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Software engineer, professor[2] |
Known for | MP/M, iFolder |
Thomas Alan Rolander is an American entrepreneur, engineer, and developer of the multitasking multiuser operating system MP/M created for microcomputers in 1979 while working as one of the first employees[3][4] of Digital Research[5][6][7][1][8] with Gary Kildall,[1][9] the "father" of CP/M. CP/M and MP/M laid the groundwork to later Digital Research operating system families such as Concurrent CP/M, Concurrent DOS and Multiuser DOS. He also developed CP/NET.[6]
In 2013 he was granted with a 2013 Diamond Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence from the University of Washington (UW).[10][1] In 2016 his Oral History was recorded for the Computer History Museum.