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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 is known for being one of the original eleven Microsoft employees.
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 left Microsoft in 1993 to "kick back" with his wife. While at Microsoft he had become a millionaire, with a 2000 TIME article estimating his worth at around $20 million. Since leaving Microsoft, Letwin has donated substantial amounts of money to environmental causes.
References
- ^ "25 Years Ago At Microsoft". TIME. May 1, 2000. Retrieved 2006-09-16.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Zachary, G. Pascal (1994). Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft. Warner Books. ISBN 0-02-935671-7.
Bibliography
- Letwin, Gordon (1988). Inside OS/2. Microsoft Press. ISBN 1-55615-117-9.
External links
- Gordon on "What's happening to OS/2" - August 1995