Fred was a friend and a colleague. Smart and enthusiastic. A creative and versatile engineer. PhD under Edward McCluskey at Stanford on building reliable and fault tolerant systems. A good manager. A teacher. A pilot and flying instructor. A Workshop organizer for the iconic Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop (amw.org), A UNIX partisan who brought the operating system to HP. Now, at 77, he is gone. He will be missed.