Bob Pariseau

Bob Pariseau is an American software manager and engineer who led the original Amiga operating-system team. He joined the young company in May 1983 after working with Tandem’s fault-tolerant mainframe computers, where multitasking and concurrent operation were normal expectations rather than unusual features.

Pariseau recruited and coordinated the software specialists who built the Amiga system, including Carl Sassenrath, RJ Mical and Dale Luck. He supported the decision to give the personal computer a responsive pre-emptive multitasking architecture and helped the software and hardware groups develop their components in parallel while prototype chips were still being completed.
At the Amiga 1000 launch at Lincoln Center in July 1985, Pariseau led the on-stage technical demonstration. The presentation showed graphics, sound and multiple applications running together and expressed the team’s central idea: the user should control time rather than wait for the computer.