Kathryn Betty Strutynski
Kathryn Betty Strutynski was a computer scientist who taught at Naval Postgraduate School and worked at Digital Research, where she contributed to develop CP/M, the first operating system for personal computers.
Early life
Kathryn Strutynski was born in 1939 in Nephi, Utah.
Education
Strutynski obtained an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Brigham Young University.
Career
In the early 1950s she worked for Pan Am Airways where she was responsible for all the charter bids at the Western Division of Pan Am. Pan Am consolidated its offices in New York and Kathryn was offered moving expenses to relocate, but she decided to stay with her husband in San Francisco, and after that worked at the estimating department of Bechtel Corporation in the same city. When the company decided to purchase a mainframe computer Strutynski was sent to take every class given at IBM. Kathryn built the company's first database retrieval system, the database was used for ten years.
Strutynski moved to Carmel Valley Village with her husband and worked at the NPS and she completed a master's degree program in computer programming at the same time. Kathryn was given system responsibility for the VM operating system at the NPS. Gary Kildal also taught at the time at the NPS and was interested in operating systems, they became friends, studied and made changes to the IBM VM-360 and 370.[1]
Digital Research Inc
Kathryn Strutynski left NPS and became the fourth employee of Digital Research Inc.[2] She worked on CP/M 2.0, and CP/M +, CP/M 2.2 and a background spooler for printing (simple multi-tasking) and system guides, and was the project manager for CP/M-86. CP/M-86 was a version of the CP/M made for the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088. The system commands are the same as in CP/M-80.[3][4]
In the 1980s she returned to work for NPS at the W. R. Church Computer Center[5][6] where she was Manager of Microcomputing Support[7] and taught MS-DOS and Wordperfect courses.[8]
Personal life
Strutynski married Alfred Strutynski in 1958 and they moved to Carmel and after that she worked for the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey.
Death
Kathryn passed away on April 9, 2010 at the home of her daughter.
See also
References
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/catalog19781979nava/catalog19781979nava_djvu.txt
- ↑ https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/montereyherald/name/kathryn-strutynski-obituary?pid=143631450
- ↑ https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/montereyherald/name/kathryn-strutynski-obituary?pid=143631450
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_computerDe_206764578/198305_djvu.txt
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/highspeeddataacq00ellipdf/highspeeddataacq00elli_djvu.txt
- ↑ Calhoun: The NPS Institutional Archive
- ↑ https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/81224338.pdf
- ↑ https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/81224274.pdf
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