18 Feb
2018
18 Feb
'18
4:16 a.m.
On 2/17/18, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)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.