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'''Andrew Keith Paul Morton''' (born 1959 in [[England]]) is an [[Australia]]n [[Software engineering|software engineer]], best known as one of the lead developers of the [[Linux kernel]]. He is currently a co-maintainer of the [[Ext3]] file system and the [[journaling file system|journaling]] layer for [[block device]]s (JBD).

In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in [[Sydney, Australia]] that produced a kit computer called the [[Applix 1616]], as well as a hardware engineer for the (now-defunct) Australian gaming equipment manufacturer Keno Computer Systems. He holds an [[Honours_degree#Honours_degrees_and_academic_distinctions|honours degree]] in [[electrical engineering]] from the [[University of New South Wales]] in Australia.