On 12/21/2016 03:03 PM, Lund James E wrote:
The mainframe community lost another one of its kind recently. Richard Peurifoy, a
keystone in mainframe support at Texas A&M University, as well as a frequent
contributor to IBM-MAIN, lost his battle with cancer last Sunday. He will be sorely
missed by all who know him.
Wow ... so sad ... thanks, James, for letting us know.
Several have said (in various streams, not just this forum) "2016 please
stop!".
Rich was a fixture in TAMU computing. In the early days of XA, I was
already a fan of VM and MVS still needed help with the new architecture.
We were running MVS on VM XA MA (migration aid). So I shared my delight
that we were running MVS on VM. Rich said, "Yeah, we'll get off of that
soon.". I only worked with Rich occasionally, but he was truly the go-to
guy for all of us.
-- R; <><
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