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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]
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]
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System 8-466A RL Monitor System (WCFMPG Version)
Author: Richard Lary, Mario DeNobili, et al. Submitted by: Stanley Rabinowitz, Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard
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