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Pat Villani
Italian-American programmer and original developer of the FreeDOS kernel
- Life
- 1954 – 2011
- Born
- April 18, 1954
- Died
- August 27, 2011
- Nationality
- United States
Pasquale "Pat" J. Villani was an American computer programmer, author, and advocate of free software, best known for his creation of DOS-C, a DOS emulator written in the C language and subsequently adapted as the kernel of the FreeDOS operating system and a number of other projects including DOSEMU for Linux. He used to sign his edits with siglum "patv".
