Artifact Details

Title

Rolander, Tom oral history

Catalog Number

102717253

Type

Document

Description

Thomas A. Rolander is an entrepreneur, engineer, and pioneering developer of operating systems and software applications for personal computers. While working at Digital Research Inc. (DRI) with Gary Kildall, the "father" of CP/M, in 1979 he created the multitasking multiuser operating system MP/M for microcomputers that laid the groundwork for later Digital Research operating system families such as Concurrent CP/M, Concurrent DOS and Multiuser DOS. He received a Diamond Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence from the University of Washington (UW) in 2013.

Date

2016-12-01

Contributor

Laws, David, Interviewer
Rolander, Tom, Interviewee

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, CA, USA

Format

PDF

Category

Transcription

Subject

Kildall; Fluke; Intel; Digital Research; CD-ROM; Microsoft; IBM; Novell, Inc.; CP/M

Credit

Computer History Museum

Lot Number

X8018.2017

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