User:TonyTebby

Me

I am Tony Tebby, not the only Tony Tebby, but I have not succeeded in persuading the other one to use a different name. Strangely enough we are both in the computing business. I am the one that made the mistake of being recruited by Sir Clive Sinclair, writing an operating system that could not possibly work because it broke nearly every rule in the book, and being banned from IT for life for not admitting that it did not work. For some time now I have been hiding in a little town called le Grand-Pressigny in the depths of rural France.

What I do

I sort out a large variety of PCs from all over the commune. Remuneration tends to be in the form of a bottle of wine, a pot of fois gras or a bucket of bones for Mozart. I spend a certain amount of time creating web sites, but that does not seem to pay as well as fixing PCs for nothing. I was also tricked into playing a Euphonium in the local fanfare. I dare not call it a marching band: with an average age of about 70 for the resident members (I'm a young'un) marching is becoming difficult. I am now playing in the wind orchestra in Loches. As I am about the oldest and the most novice I am treated with a certain kindly indulgence. I have not yet been banned from making music, so I suppose I must be better at that than at writing software.

My links

My site about the South Touraine (I am the alien)
Mozart (in case you wondered why Mozart would want a bucket of bones)

Sorry Tony, didn't want to vandalise your user page, but this is the only way I know to contact you. (Delete this as soon as you've read it) What I wanted to say is:

My God, Man : IT DID WORK, AND IT WORKED GREAT.

QDOS may have taught Linus Torvalds, it also taught ME! (And many others I know of), though other 'Teachers' where Ian Jones' superb 'SuperBasic' and the 68000 butifullly simple and logical machine-language (I never got to 'Do machine-language' on Intels, hate their instruction-set too much for that).

I moved on to Pascal, C, several other languages..... and then on to the Apple-Mac (When the QL was killed) end became software-engineer on that machine for many years. (I have retired and am a full-time houseman now)

Al that time (Until the advent of MAC OSX) I had far greater respect for QDOS than I had for MAC OS and considered QDOS fundamentally superior (Whel, taking into account that id did not evolve anymore after, let's say, '86), all that time wishing that I could be developing for QDOS rather than MAC-OS!

And to think that this simple yet powerful operating-system had been thrown together (Faite entre la soupe et les patattes, as they say in French) in a few months' time, by a single bloke! (Who had been hired to do something quit different altogether)!

Banned from IT for life? In my book you are the best that ever was: Von Neumann, Wirth, Hoare.....(And Me, myself) can all take lessons from you.

Since this is public, I will not sign, and my IP-adress changes constantly,