RIP Gene.
Never met him, worked with several who had after he had left
AMDAHL. I always thought highly of him as did they.
I had hoped he would come up with another system to compete with
IBM. They sure need it.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
On 11/12/2015 09:09 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-12/gene-amdahl-ibm-computer-desig
ner-who-founded-rival-dies-at-92
Gene Amdahl, who helped IBM usher in general-purpose computers in the 1960s and
challenged the company's dominance a decade later with his eponymous machines,
has died. He was 92.
He died on Nov. 10 at Vi at Palo Alto, a continuing care retirement community in
Palo Alto, California, his wife Marian Amdahl said in a telephone interview. The
cause was pneumonia, and he had Alzheimer's disease for about five years.
Lizette Koehler
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
