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Richard Lary

Richard Lary

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Richard F. "Richie" Lary (born 1948, Brooklyn, New York) is the RL of the PDP-8 RL Monitor System,[1][2][3] which subsequently became MS/8. Years later, while working for Digital Equipment Corporation, he was also involved with other DEC hardware and software, including "principal architect for OS/8"[4] and "working on the VAX architecture."[5]

Biography

He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1965, along with Steve Rothman; they both were on the school's Math Team[6] and "later wound up working on the VAX architecture."[5] They were $2/hour summertime Fortran programmers in 1965, using an IBM 1130.

Lary left DEC in 2000, forming a company he and his wife Ellen Lary, also a former DEC employee,[7] named TuteLary.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    "5/8-1.1a BPAK - A Binary Input/Output Package for the PDP-5". BitSavers. System 8-466A RL Monitor System (WCFMPG Version)
  2. [2]
    "RL Monitor System".
  3. [3]
    "PDP-a" (PDF). Author: Richard Lary, Mario DeNobili, et al. Submitted by: Stanley Rabinowitz, Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard
  4. [4]
    "What is a PDP-8?". Archived from the original on August 25, 2004.
  5. [5]
    Tom Burniece (August 14, 2015). "Interview of Richard (Richie) Lary, part 1" (PDF). ComputerHistory.org.
  6. [6]
    "Stuyvesant Math Team, Spring 1965". Archived from the original on May 29, 2011. Retrieved November 13, 2007.
  7. [7]
    "BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE". 1997.
  8. [8]
    "Richard and Ellen Lary / TuteLary, LLC". August 26, 2009. Retrieved September 29, 2020.



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