Richard Lary

Richard F. "Richie" Lary (born 1948, Brooklyn) 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. "5/8-1.1a BPAK - A Binary Input/Output Package for the PDP-5". BitSavers. System 8-466A RL Monitor System (WCFMPG Version)
  2. "RL Monitor System".
  3. "PDP-a" (PDF). Author: Richard Lary, Mario DeNobili, et al. Submitted by: Stanley Rabinowitz, Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard
  4. "What is a PDP-8?".
  5. Tom Burniece (August 14, 2015). "Interview of Richard (Richie) Lary, part 1" (PDF). ComputerHistory.org.
  6. "Stuyvesant Math Team, Spring 1965". Archived from the original on May 29, 2011. Retrieved November 13, 2007.
  7. "BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE". 1997.
  8. "Richard and Ellen Lary / TuteLary, LLC". August 26, 2009. Retrieved September 29, 2020.


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