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From: paul.winalski@gmail.com (Paul Winalski)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dick Hustvedt!
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:16:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VQVUipiT0qadDtO8OmYPCkWoYDCt45=Wr6Qem1x5hwd2Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1802180738560.14077@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On 2/17/18, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> Let's see how much thread-drift I can generate this time...
>
> Dick Hustvedt was born on this day in 1946; an architect of RSX-11 and
> VMS, he also had a weird sense of humour which he demonstrated by
> enshrining the "microfortnight" into VMS.
>
> Sadly, we lost him in a car accident in 2008.

THE best engineer and software architect that I ever worked with.  At
least as talented as Dave Cutler, without the arrogance and nasty
temper.  A conference room in DEC's Nashua NH software engineering
facility was named after him.

One of Dick's April Fool's Day hacks, the SD-730 Solar Horologue was
kept in the Hustvedt conference room for many years.  It is now at VMS
Software, Inc.

-Paul W.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-17 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-17 20:43 Dave Horsfall
2018-02-17 20:50 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-02-17 20:56 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-02-17 22:16 ` Paul Winalski [this message]
2018-02-18  4:53 ` Andy Kosela
2018-02-19 18:12   ` Paul Winalski
2018-02-20  9:11     ` Donald ODona
2018-02-20  5:20 ` Dave Horsfall

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