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Tom Rolander

Tom Rolander
Born
Kiomboi, Tanzania[1]
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Software engineer, professor[2]
Known forMP/M, iFolder

Thomas Alan Rolander 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[3][4] of Digital Research[5][6][7][1][8] with Gary Kildall,[1][9] 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.[6]

Digital Research Employee Badge, THOMAS ROLANDER, I.D. #1

In 2013 he was granted with a 2013 Diamond Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence from the University of Washington (UW).[10][1] In 2016 his Oral History was recorded for the Computer History Museum.

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