Fred Fish

For other people named Frederick Fish, see Frederick Fish (disambiguation).
Fred Fish
Fred Fish, Jason Compton, and Dave Haynie in 1995
Born(1952-11-04)November 4, 1952
DiedApril 20, 2007(2007-04-20) (aged 54)
Known forFish Disks
SpouseMichelle Fish (née Norman)
Image taken at the first Amiga show in Cologne (1989, Köln). Front row from left to right, Matt Dillon and Fred Fish. Back row from the left: Oliver Wagner and Mick Hohmann.

Fred Fish (November 4, 1952 – April 20, 2007) was a computer programmer notable for work on the GNU Debugger and his series of freeware disks for the Amiga.

Fish worked for Cygnus Solutions in the 1990s before leaving for Be Inc. in 1998.[1]

In 1978, he self-published User Survival Guide for TI-58/59 Master Library.[2] It was advertised in enthusiast newsletters covering the TI-59 programmable calculator. Fish also initiated the "GeekGadgets" project, a GNU standard environment for AmigaOS and BeOS.

  1. ^ "Fred Fish". Archived from the original on December 24, 2008. Retrieved 2017-09-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Green Blog.
  2. ^ Fish, Fred (1978). "User Survival Guide for TI-58/59 Master Library" (PDF). rskey.org. Retrieved 2018-06-19.