Peter Norton
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- This article is about the founder of Norton Utilities. For the owner of Pete's Eats, see that page.
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Peter Norton is a software engineer, a graduate of Reed College. In the 1980s, he produced a popular tool to retrieve erased data from DOS disks, which was followed by several other tools which were collectively known as the Norton Utilities. Some of these were derivative, such as the flagship product for Norton Utilities Release 2, FileFind, derivative from On Disk Software's FindFile which he received for review while Utilities Editor at PC Magazine. FindFIle was not reviewed. Ironically, the creator of FindFile was also a student at Reed College.
Along with Utilities he produced the Norton Commander - a very popular file managing tool for DOS derivative from X-Tree, and Norton Guide - a TSR program which showed reference information for assembly language. He and his company, Peter Norton Computing, also produced several other programs and technical manuals.
In 1990, he sold the company to Symantec. The Norton brand name lives on in Symantec's product Norton AntiVirus.
Norton and his wife Eileen Harris-Norton later founded the Norton Family Foundation, which gives financial support to the arts.
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