Tom Rolander

Tom Rolander
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Born
Thomas Alan Rolander

1948 (age 77–78)
Kiomboi, Tanzania
OccupationsSoftware engineer, professor
Known forMP/M, iFolder

Thomas Alan Rolander (born 1948) 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 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 (UW). In 2016 his Oral History was recorded for the Computer History Museum.

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