Tom Rolander

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

Tom Rolander
Born	Kiomboi, Tanzania[1]
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Software engineer, professor[2]
Known for	MP/M, iFolder

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.