{{short description|American programmer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox person | name = Marlin Eller | image = | image_size = 180px | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = Development at [[Microsoft]], authoring ''[[Barbarians Led by Bill Gates]]'' | occupation = Programmer }} '''Marlin Eller''' is an American programmer who was a manager and a software developer at [[Microsoft|Microsoft Corporation]] from 1982 to 1995, and he was development lead for the [[Graphics Device Interface]] of [[Windows 1.0]] and also for [[Pen Windows]].<ref>[http://www.ercb.com/brief/brief.0073.html ERCB: Barbarians Led by Bill Gates<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126127-page,1/article.html PC World - Analysis: What Bill Gates's Departure Means for Microsoft<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He was also a co-founder and the CEO of Sunhawk Digital Music LLC.<ref name="Sheet Music Now">[https://sheetmusicnow.com Sheet Music Now<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929231227/http://www.freehandsystems.com/management.html |date=2007-09-29 }}</ref> He was later chairman of the game development company [[Reflexive Entertainment]].<ref>[http://pc.gamezone.com/news/01_24_02_09_14AM.htm Reflexive's CEO talks with GameZone - PC News<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071129215920/http://pc.gamezone.com/news/01_24_02_09_14AM.htm |date=2007-11-29 }}</ref>
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]] in 1974. He then went on for his Master of Science in mathematics from the [[University of Washington]].<ref name="Sheet Music Now"/>
==See also== *[[Pen computing]]
==Bibliography== * 1995 ''Multiple-Scattering Calculations of X-Ray Absorption Spectra'', [[American Physical Society|The American Physical Society]]<ref name="Sheet Music Now"/> * 1998 ''[[Barbarians Led by Bill Gates]]'', co-authored with Jennifer Edstrom, Henry Holt, Inc., 256 pp., {{ISBN|0-8050-5754-4}}
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