User:Zazpot/Robert L. Patrick

Robert L. Patrick was a computer scientist who worked on early operating systems.

Patrick worked as a consultant for Rand from 1959 until about 1992.

Patrick contributed to mainframe operating systems in the series that culminated in the creation of OS/360. The series started in 1956 with the GM-NAA input/output system, progressing through the SHARE Operating System (SOS) (1959), IBSYS (1960), the Direct Couple, and finally OS/360 c.1965-1966.

Patrick helped to organize the conference session that culminated in the publication of Security and privacy in computer systems.

In 2006, Patrick donated a number of documents to the Computer History Museum.