Richard F. "Richie" Lary (born 1948,

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) is the ''RL'' of the PDP-8 '' RL Monitor System'', which subsequently became ''MS/8''. Years later, while working for

Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president unt ...

, he was also involved with other ''DEC'' hardware and software, including "principal architect for OS/8" and "working on the VAX architecture."

Biography

He graduated from

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in 1965, along with ; they both were on the school's ''Math Team'' and "later wound up working on the VAX architecture." 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, named ''TuteLary.''

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1948 births Living people Computer hardware engineers American computer programmers Digital Equipment Corporation people 20th-century American businesspeople American company founders Engineers from Brooklyn Stuyvesant High School alumni {{US-business-bio-1940s-stub