RIP Ernst Winter

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Ernst Winter died 30 Nov 2011. In roughly chronological order:

Ernst was German, a sailor for much of his earlier life,
he humped concrete in Australia,
retired & moved to Munich, had better English than German by his return, he told Julian.
Ernst was a friend of Norbert Gary Julian Astrid etc in Munich.
Ernst sometimes spoke some Japanese with Astrid
In 1991 ordered a stack of maybe 40 floppies from Bill Jollitz, 1st ed. of 386BSD (see articles in Dr. Dobb's Journal & I recall CT Mag (Pub. Heise Verlag, in German), fore runner of FreeBSD & other BSDs for PCs etc,
Ernst arranged use of servers (PC & Sun, FreeBSD & OpenBSD) at Norbert's, for Berkeley In Munich BSD group, that extended to Berklix,
Ernst was into leather working, Julian ordered some special leather tools for Ernst from Birmingham, as he had no Sterling account. No idea what happened to his leather working tools, prob went to his relatives.
Ernst last lived in Buesingen am Hochrhein a German exclave surrounded by Switzerland
- www . bbc . com / travel / story / 20190922 - germanys - tiny - geographic - oddity
- en . wikipedia . org / wiki / B%C3%BCsingen_am_Hochrhein
near his lady friend Ursula in Switzerland.
Ernst used to have domain http://www.ewinter.org
Last snapshot 4th July 2011
Julian has some off line remnants of Ernst's server data