Peter Norton

Peter Norton ( born November 14, 1943 in Aberdeen, Washington) is an American software developer and entrepreneur. Peter Norton is best known for the development of tools for the command-line - oriented operating system DOS in the 1980s:

  • Norton Commander, a utility for file and disk management
  • Norton Utilities, a collection of various analysis and maintenance programs for the PC
  • Norton Desktop, a graphical user interface

1985 Norton wrote for Microsoft Press is the standard work Advanced MS- DOS Programming, which belongs next to Andrew Schulman Undocumented DOS directory to the classics in this field. Also very popular was Peter Norton's assembly language book, which appeared in 1988 as a German translation.

Norton Peter Norton Computing company was acquired in 1990 by Symantec. With the proceeds, he and his wife Eileen Harris - Norton founded the Norton Art Foundation Family Foundation.

The 1982 discovered asteroid ( 4115 ) Peter Norton was named after him.

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  • Computer scientist
  • Entrepreneurs (IT)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1943
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