[TUHS] Happy birthday, Dick Hustvedt!

[TUHS] Happy birthday, Dick Hustvedt!

[Dave Horsfall]

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.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."

[TUHS] Happy birthday, Dick Hustvedt!

[Arthur Krewat]

On 2/17/2018 3:43 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Let's see how much thread-drift I can generate this time...

Keep up the good work, I really like the birthday/obituary announcements 
you provide.

[TUHS] Happy birthday, Dick Hustvedt!

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

> Let's see how much thread-drift I can generate this time...

I miss my mid-90s (physical) Usenix calendar.  It listed, among other 
important dates, the anniversary of the first airing of the Rocky and 
Bullwinkle show.

--lyndon

[TUHS] Happy birthday, Dick Hustvedt!

[Paul Winalski]

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.

[TUHS] Happy birthday, Dick Hustvedt!

[Andy Kosela]

On Saturday, February 17, 2018, 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.
>
>
Hmm, that's actually not true.  He had a car accident in 1984 on his way to
the office which left him with brain damage.  He later died in 2008.

Dick Hustvedt, Peter Lipman and David Cutler were the principal engineers
responsible for VMS.  Lipman left DEC the same year (1984) and we all know
the later history of Cutler... ;)

--Andy
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[TUHS] Happy birthday, Dick Hustvedt!

[Paul Winalski]

On 2/17/18, Andy Kosela <akosela at andykosela.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, February 17, 2018, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>

> Dick Hustvedt, Peter Lipman and David Cutler were the principal engineers
> responsible for VMS.  Lipman left DEC the same year (1984) and we all know
> the later history of Cutler... ;)

Dave Cutler was in the VMS group only for VMS version 1.  He rarely
stayed on around for version 2 of anything.  Hustvedt's and Lipman's
contributions for VMS were more extensive and longer-lasting than
Cutler's.

-Paul W.

[TUHS] Happy birthday, Dick Hustvedt!

[Dave Horsfall]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> Sadly, we lost him in a car accident in 2008.

Thanks, all; correction noted.  I love being wrong, because I learn a lot 
that way...

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."

[TUHS] Happy birthday, Dick Hustvedt!

[Donald ODona]

since '86 he was working on an operating system, named Mica, which failed.

At 19 Feb 2018 18:13:59 +0000 (+00:00) from Paul Winalski <paul.winalski at gmail.com>:
> Dave Cutler was in the VMS group only for VMS version 1.  He rarely
> stayed on around for version 2 of anything.  Hustvedt's and Lipman's
> contributions for VMS were more extensive and longer-lasting than
> Cutler's.
> 
> -Paul W.