[GTALUG] David Tilbrook

[Karen Lewellen]

oh wow.
I am truly profoundly sorry, for you and for his family.
to be sure he created a bit of immortality through his work, but that is 
little comfort in this moment.
Karen



On Sat, 16 Jan 2021, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:

> David Tilbrook passed away in the night yesterday.  COVID-19, dammit.
>
> David had given a couple of talks at GTALUG.
>
> He was a long-time UNIX guy.  We did CS degrees at the same time at the
> University of Toronto.  He was an official member of DGP (I was only a
> guest) where (and when) the first U of T UNIX system was installed.
>
> We and Rob Pike worked on text editors (ed, qed), among other things.
>
> You know when a GUI interface changes the cursor symbol to indicate that
> the system is busy?  He invented that.
>
> He was one of the founders of HCR, a Toronto UNIX software house.
>
> He did a lot of interesting things, knew a lot of interesting people, and
> had a lot of interesting stories.  He has a good family too.
>
> I miss him.  In fact, I've missed him for a year -- we were planning to
> visit when COVID showed up.  "We" included Christopher Browne, now also
> passed.
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