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Timur Tabi is Linux device driver developer who was once a well-known OS/2 user and developer.  Timur used to work at IBM on the OS/2 multimedia subsystem.  During that time, he:
Timur Tabi is a Linux device driver developer who was once a well-known OS/2 user and developer.  Timur used to work at IBM on the OS/2 multimedia subsystem.  During that time, he:
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<li>Created RTMIDI, the real-time MIDI subsystem for OS/2
<li>Created RTMIDI, the real-time MIDI subsystem.
<li>Created the MPU-401 device driver.
<li>Created the MPU-401 device driver.
<li>Pioneered the development of C++ in OS/2 device drivers.
<li>Pioneered the development of C++ in OS/2 device drivers.
<li>Did some of the initial work on the object-oriented audio device driver sample.
<li>Did the initial work on the object-oriented audio device driver sample.
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After leaving IBM in 1997, Timur no longer did any major OS/2 development but still contributed to the OS/2 community, particularly by giving presentations on OS/2 programming at the Warpstock conferences.  Timur finally gave up OS/2 altogether in 2004, when he had to get rid of his personal PC and his home office to make room for his second child.

Revision as of 18:06, 6 July 2005

Timur Tabi is a Linux device driver developer who was once a well-known OS/2 user and developer. Timur used to work at IBM on the OS/2 multimedia subsystem. During that time, he:

  • Created RTMIDI, the real-time MIDI subsystem.
  • Created the MPU-401 device driver.
  • Pioneered the development of C++ in OS/2 device drivers.
  • Did the initial work on the object-oriented audio device driver sample.

After leaving IBM in 1997, Timur no longer did any major OS/2 development but still contributed to the OS/2 community, particularly by giving presentations on OS/2 programming at the Warpstock conferences. Timur finally gave up OS/2 altogether in 2004, when he had to get rid of his personal PC and his home office to make room for his second child.