# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tim-paterson
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:26:18.063Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tim-paterson"
name: "Tim Paterson"
slug: "tim-paterson"
description: "Tim Paterson 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. 86-DOS later formed the basis of MS-DOS, the most widely used personal computer operating system in the 1980s."
tagline: "American computer programmer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1956-06-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.16595466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 171
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/patersontech"
    handle:    "patersontech"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dosdaddy/"
    handle:    "dosdaddy"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2608719/"
    handle:    "nm2608719"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.patersontech.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson"
    title: "Tim Paterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%B9%D9%85_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%B9%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "ٹم پیٹرسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%AC)"
    title: "تيم باترسون (مبرمج)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson"
    title: "Tim Paterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson"
    title: "Tim Paterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson"
    title: "Tim Paterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson"
    title: "Tim Paterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%85_%D9%BE%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "تیم پترسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson"
    title: "Tim Paterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson"
    title: "Tim Paterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson"
    title: "Tim Paterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ティム・パターソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%80_%ED%8C%A8%ED%84%B0%EC%8A%A8"
    title: "팀 패터슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%82_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%BA"
    title: "ടിം പാറ്റേഴ്സൺ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson"
    title: "Tim Paterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson"
    title: "Tim Paterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92940"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1797969"
    title: "Tim Paterson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump