Simon Tatham | |
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Born | 3 May 1977 |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Computer programmer |
Employer | ARM Holdings [1] |
Known for | PuTTY, NASM |
Website | www |
Simon Tatham (born 3 May 1977) [1] is a British computer programmer. He created and maintains PuTTY, a free software implementation of Secure Shell (SSH) and Telnet for Microsoft Windows and Unix, along with an xterm terminal emulator. He is also the original author of Netwide Assembler (NASM), [2] and maintains a collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle games. All of them run natively on Nintendo DS, Symbian S60, Unix (GTK; Android, MacOS), and Windows.
He attended University of Cambridge, and currently works at ARM Holdings.
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