From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: paul.winalski@gmail.com (Paul Winalski) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:16:04 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dick Hustvedt! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 2/17/18, Dave Horsfall 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.