Richard F. "Richie" Lary (born 1948,

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) is the ''RL'' of the

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'' RL Monitor System'', which subsequently became ''MS/8''. Years later, while working for

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, he was also involved with other ''DEC'' hardware and software, including "principal architect for

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" 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

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. 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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