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Simon Tatham

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Simon Tatham
Born (1977-05-03) 3 May 1977 (age 48)
OccupationComputer programmer
EmployerARM Holdings[1]
Known forPuTTY, NASM
Websitewww.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/

Simon Tatham (born 3 May 1977)[1] is a British computer programmer. He created and maintains PuTTY,[2] 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),[3] 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 the University of Cambridge, and currently works at ARM Holdings.

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  1. ^ a b "Simon the collection of historical fact". Simon Tatham. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  2. ^ Liam Proven (17 July 2025). "PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY – and now it's spouting pandemic piffle". The Register. Wikidata Q137260367. Archived from the original on 6 December 2025.
  3. ^ The Netwide Assembler: NASM from SourceForge
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