the passing of IBM's David N. Smith

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Tue Apr 20 17:11:20 UTC 2004


Rats. I've known Dave for over twenty years, since I was an IBM Reseach
Fellow and he got me my first chance to play with Smalltalk 80 v1 on a
SUN at Yorktown lab. Big guy, big spirit, big influence.

An IBM bigwig once described him to me as "Dave Smith - 6ft lots,
350lbs, does anything he damn well likes". Fortunately for us, Dave
liked to come up with interesting things. Gonna miss him.

tim
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Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
Useful random insult:- Differently clued.  -- Dave Clark



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