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Thomas Alan Rolander is an American entrepreneur, engineer, and developer of the multitasking multiuser 
In 2013 he was granted with a 2013 Diamond Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence from the
operating system
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Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ef ...
MP/M created for microcomputers in 1979 while working as one of the first employees of Digital Research with Gary Kildall, 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.
In 2013 he was granted with a 2013 Diamond Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence from the University of Washington
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(UW).
See also
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* Novell
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* * Digital Research employees Digital Research people CP/M people 21st-century American engineers American computer programmers University of Washington alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-engineer-stub