Bill Gates

Bill Gates

male, 54 years old (Seattle, Washington, United States)
Microsoft, Microsoft founder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, college dropout, geek, Windows…ms-dos 1.0, ms-dos 4.0, ms-dos 3.3, ms-dos
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he...
Tim Paterson

Tim Paterson

male, 53 years old
86-DOS, computer programmer, ex-Microsoft employee, MS-DOS writer, University of Washington, CP/M…ms-dos
Tim Paterson (born 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known as the original author of the popular MS-DOS operating system. Educated at...

Dj Delorie

male
computer pioneer, Microsoft Windows, c++, C programming language, IBM PC, compiler…ms-dos
DJ Delorie is a US-American software developer. He initiated and maintains the DJGPP project, a very successful, free port of the GNU C/C++...

Jim Hall

male
computer programmer, GNU Robots, Tim Northover, University Of Wisconsin-River Falls, Programmer, ms-dos
Jim Hall began work on a free software replacement for the MS-DOS operating system in 1994 when he was still a physics student at the University of...
Mark Zbikowski

Mark Zbikowski

male, 53 years old
hacker, Yale University alumni, magic number, DOS executable, OS/2, ASCII…ms-dos
Mark Zbikowski (born March 21 1956 in Detroit, Michigan) was a Microsoft Architect and one of the first computer hackers. He started working at the...

Marc McDonald

male
Microsoft employee, Marc B. McDonald, File Allocation Table, Windows, quality assurance, Microsoft…ms-dos
Marc B. McDonald was Microsoft's first salaried employee (not counting Monte Davidoff, who wrote the maths package for Basic for a flat fee). He is...
Brad Silverberg

Brad Silverberg

male
Microsoft employee, Microsoft Office, Windows 95, Windows, Microsoft, ms-dos
Brad is a founding partner of Ignition. He invests in software, infrastructure, and consumer companies. Brad represents Ignition as director on the...
Doug Church

Doug Church

male
Video Game Designer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Looking Glass Studios, Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Interactive, Indie Game Jam…ms-dos
Doug Church is an American computer game designer and producer. He attended MIT in the early 1990s, but left and went to work with Looking Glass...

Bill Stewart

male
ms-dos, Programmer, shareware, IBM-DOS, TRS-80
Bill Stewart, né William C. Stewart, born Memphis, TN, 1950. Bill Stewart founded Stewart Software Company, Memphis, TN in 1984 and marketed Z80 A...
Ettore Perazzoli

Ettore Perazzoli

male, deceased (2003)
GNOME developer, nautilus, Linux, Italian, c sharp, commodore 64…ms-dos
Ettore Perazzoli (June 15, 1974 - December 10, 2003) was an Italian free software developer. Born in Milan, Italy, he studied Engineering at...