On 17 Dec 2012 13:25:59 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On bit.listserv.ibm-main 15 Dec 2012 Gordon de la Mare wrote: >> For those of you who were long term subscribers to this >> newsgroup you will have had memories of Phil. >> Lots of bust ups with IBM (especially their lawyers) as >> some of his postings attest. >> They can rest now. >> >> Phil decided he'd had enough of the planet and decided >> to save on any future expenditure on health costs by >> getting out early. >> He posted a write up of his life on his website: >> http://www.isham-research.co.uk/biog.html >> The end bits explains why he had had enough. >> >> I had pleasure (?) in working with Phil at Amdahl back in >> the 1980-90s. He'd have made a great agent provocateur >> in times of war. >> >> Regards >> Gordon (a once upon a time JES3 specialist - oh how nice >> to write those words again!) > > >He was a very clever bloke. Highly knowledgeable and a master of the withering >put-down. I never met him in real life but I consider it an honour to have >been insulted by him on a number of occasions via the internet.
The way I read the blog, it says he will end his life but not necessarily that it would take place immediately after posting. I don't find any obituaries for him so this may just be something he is seriously contemplating. Clark Morris > > >Roger Bowler >Hercules "the people's mainframe" > >See also http://www.quattroforum.com/index.php?threads/phil-payne.18061/ > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
