Richard Lary Explained

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 ; 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: BitSavers . 5/8-1.1a BPAK - A Binary Input/Output Package for the PDP-5 . System 8-466A RL Monitor System (WCFMPG Version).
  2. Web site: RL Monitor System.
  3. Web site: PDP-a . Author: Richard Lary, Mario DeNobili, et al. Submitted by: Stanley Rabinowitz, Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard.
  4. Web site: What is a PDP-8?. https://web.archive.org/web/20040825183612/http://sunsite.tus.ac.jp/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-8/docs/WHAT-IS-A-PDP8. August 25, 2004.
  5. Web site: ComputerHistory.org. Interview of Richard (Richie) Lary, part 1. Tom Burniece . August 14, 2015.
  6. Web site: Stuyvesant Math Team, Spring 1965 . November 13, 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110529135615/http://173.8.135.113/Math1965.html . May 29, 2011 .
  7. Web site: BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE. 1997.
  8. Web site: Richard and Ellen Lary / TuteLary, LLC . August 26, 2009 . September 29, 2020.

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