Carl Sassenrath, born 1957 in California, is an architect of operating systems and computer languages. He brought multitasking to personal computers in 1985 with the creation of the Amiga Computer operating system kernel, and he is the designer of the REBOL computer language, the REBOL/IOS collaboration environment, the Safeworlds AltME private messaging system, and other products. He was a Principal Engineer at Roku, Inc. until his retirement in November 2023.
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Carl Sassenrath (born 1957 in California) is an architect of operating systems and computer languages.
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American computer scientist
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