John Socha

American software developer (born 1958) John Socha-Leialoha (born 1958) is a software developer best known for creating Norton Commander, the first orthodox file manager, for MS-DOS. John grew up in Wisconsin, earned a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his PhD in Applied Physics from Cornell University. Starting in September 2010, John began working at Microsoft officially. Independent work In the early days of the IBM PC, John Socha wrote a column for the now defunct magazine Softalk, where he published such programs as ScrnSave, KbdBuffer (extending the keyboard buffer), and Whereis (finding files on a hard disk). ScrnSave was the first screensaver ever created.[citation needed] John Socha also coined the term screen saver.[citation needed] The built-in screensaver (night sky with stars) was one of the most distinctive features of Norton Commander, along with the two-panel blue screen. When Peter Norton Computing was acquired by Symantec in 1990, John Socha left to found his own company, Socha Computing. The company developed the Microsoft Plus! add-on pack for Windows 95, screensavers for Windows 98, and two minigames for the 1996 vi