COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Tim Paterson

1956 - Today

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Tim Paterson (born 1 June 1956) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tim Paterson has received more than 432,652 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Tim Paterson is the 159th most popular computer scientist (down from 148th in 2019).

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  • 430k

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  • 51.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Tim Paterson ranks 159 out of 245. Before him are Kathleen Booth, Randy Pausch, Raj Reddy, Martin Fowler, James H. Clark, and Bertrand Meyer. After him are Steve Russell, Andy Hertzfeld, Michael Dertouzos, Bruce Schneier, Hal Abelson, and Gary McKinnon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Tim Paterson ranks 443. Before him are Robert H. McNaught, Kenneth Eriksson, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Michael Hoffman, Desireé Cousteau, and Emmanuel Kundé. After him are Stella Kyriakides, Avi Wigderson, Ratko Radovanović, Meg Whitman, Rabri Devi, and Sanjaagiin Bayar.

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