[vcf-midatlantic] Gordon Bell, an architect of our digital age, dies at age 89

[Herbert Johnson]

> Time is a cruel foe that none of us can escape.

I suggest a focus on the departed, and their legacy and the people still 
here who benefited from Gordon Bell's legacy and lament his loss. It's 
that legacy that survives through time. If we preserve the association 
with Bell, his legacy continues. That's a means to deal with the passage 
of time. As an old person myself, I consider my legacy and otherwise 
manage the time I have left.

Bell did considerable work in establishing a surviving legacy of the 
work of DEC which he founded with others; and preserving his own works. 
His efforts and DEC led to our world today of information technology 
which ironically preserves his own legacy: if his successors keep it 
available.

Regards Herb Johnson

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Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA
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