Gordon Letwin
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Top row: Steve Wood (left), Bob Wallace, Jim Lane. Middle row: Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin. Bottom row: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen.
Gordon Letwin is a software developer who worked at Heathkit on the software for their microcomputers before joining Microsoft. Although he was one of the original fifteen Microsoft employees, he left in 1993 to "kick back" with his wife.
While at Microsoft, Letwin worked on a number of projects. His first project at Microsoft was writing a BASIC compiler. He is most noted for being the lead architect of the OS/2 operating system on the Microsoft side, with Ed Iacobucci being the lead architect from IBM's side. Letwin contributed much of the design and code for several core components, including the HPFS file system.
Letwin became a millionaire while working at Microsoft, in a 2003 article TIME estimated his worth at around $20 million. Since leaving Microsoft, Letwin has donated substantial amounts of money to environmental causes.
Bibliography
- Letwin, Gordon (1988). Inside OS/2. Microsoft Press. ISBN 1556151179. It is interesting to note that the original name for OS/2 was DOS 5, as it was regarded as the next iteration of DOS.
External links
- Gordon on "[What's happening to OS/2]" - August 1995
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