Simon Tatham

{{short description|English programmer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}

{{primary sources|date=April 2020}}

{{Use British English|date=July 2012}}

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|image = Simon Tatham in 2012.jpg

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|birth_date = {{Birth_date_and_age|df=y|1977|5|3}}

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|known_for = PuTTY, NASM

|occupation = Computer programmer

|nationality = British

|employer = ARM Holdings

|website = {{url|https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/}}

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Simon Tatham (born 3 May 1977){{cite web|title=Simon the collection of historical fact|url=https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/me.html|work=Simon Tatham|accessdate=13 February 2011}} is a British computer programmer. He created and maintains PuTTY, 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),[http://nasm.sourceforge.net/ The Netwide Assembler: NASM] from SourceForge 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 University of Cambridge, and currently works at ARM Holdings.