Peter Norton (born November 14, 1943) is an American software publisher, author, and philanthropist.
Norton was born in Aberdeen, Washington. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, graduating in 1965.
In the 1980s, Norton produced a popular tool to retrieve erased data from DOS disks, which was followed by several other tools which were collectively known as the Norton Utilities.
Along with Norton Utilities, Norton produced Norton Commande...
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Peter Norton (born November 14, 1943) is an American software publisher, author, and philanthropist.
Norton was born in Aberdeen, Washington. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, graduating in 1965.
In the 1980s, Norton produced a popular tool to retrieve erased data from DOS disks, which was followed by several other tools which were collectively known as the Norton Utilities.
Along with Norton Utilities, Norton produced Norton Commander, a file managing tool for DOS; Norton Guides, a TSR program which showed reference information for assembly language and other IBM PC internals, but could also display other reference information compiled into the appropriate file format; and Norton Editor, a programmer's text editor.
Norton and his company, Peter Norton Computing, also produced several other programs, technical manuals, and introductory computing books. Norton is best known for The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM-PC, a popular and comprehensive guide to low-level...
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