On Saturday, February 17, 2018, Dave Horsfall <dave@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