Robert Schutz
Passed Away
I just learned of Robert Schutz's death earlier in the year.
He was one of the CAD pioneers, writing the smallest ADI drivers known to man. When you next download a 55MB device driver for a mouse, think of Robert's 4KB miracles that packed in a lot of features for graphics boards running AutoCAD. More recently he was a Rhino dealer.
Tributes and condolences on this page at the Rhino site.
I first "met" Robert back in the 80s when I ran a Fidonet AutoCAD bulletin board system called Datadraft. He ran one called off broadway business systems and we chatted from time to time over the rudimentary pre-internet systems. I finally had a chance to meet him in person a few years ago at a conference and found him pleasant and friendly.
Posted by: Scott Hucke | Sep 22, 2007 at 19:46