name: Shamim Mohamed email: url: privateEmail: tag: updated: Shamim met Unix in 1983 and was introduced to Linux at version 0.99 pl12. He is the author of Icon's POSIX interface and produced the linux distributions described in this article. These days he is a Silicon Valley polymath and factotum, and an instrument rated pilot flying taildraggers. He's at spm@crl.com | http://www.crl.com/~spm. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona.