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. 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 lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
