Marlin Eller is an American programmer who was a manager and a software developer at
Microsoft Corporation
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from 1982–1995, and he was development lead for the
Graphics Device Interface
The Graphics Device Interface (GDI) is a legacy component of Microsoft Windows responsible for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices such as monitors and printers. Windows apps use Windows API to interact with GDI ...
of
Windows 1.0
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and also for
Pen Windows. He was also a co-founder and the CEO of Sunhawk Digital Music LLC.
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He was later chairman of the game development company
Reflexive Entertainment
Reflexive Entertainment was a video game developer based in Lake Forest, California. The company was cofounded by Lars Brubaker, Ernie Ramirez, James C. Smith and Ion Hardie in 1997. They developed nineteen games independently (for Microsoft Wind ...
.
Reflexive's CEO talks with GameZone - PC News
Eller also co-authored the book '' Barbarians Led by Bill Gates'' with Jennifer Edstrom.
Eller received his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Whitman College
Whitman College is a private liberal arts college in Walla Walla, Washington. The school offers 53 majors and 33 minors in the liberal arts and sciences, and it has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. Whitman was the first college in the Pacifi ...
in 1974. He then went on for his Master of Science in Mathematics from the University of Washington
The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington.
Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...
.
See also
*Pen computing
Pen computing refers to any computer user-interface using a pen or stylus and tablet, over input devices such as a keyboard or a mouse.
Pen computing is also used to refer to the usage of mobile devices such as tablet computers, PDAs and GPS recei ...
Bibliography
* 1995 ''Multiple-Scattering Calculations of X-Ray Absorption Spectra, The American Physical Society
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References
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Computer programmers
Whitman College alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)