Married to Audrey R. Reith (1936?-2024) in 1976. Father of sons Eric Hustvedt (1978) and Marc Hustvedt (1979).
On January 13, 1984, he suffered a severe head injury in an automobile accident in Acton, Massachusetts. He resided in New Hampshire at the time of his death on April 15, 2008.
Dick Hustvedt was one of the three principal designers of VMS, along with Dave Cutler and Peter Lipman. VMS was first conceived in 1976 as the operating system for the 32-bit, virtual memory line of computers eventually named VAX. Version V1.0 shipped in 1978 and the VAX and VMS became flagship products for DEC. Hustvedt was also the driving force behind the development of DEC's VAXcluster, which was the first clustering system to achieve commercial success, and was a major selling point for VAX systems.
His sense of humor is behind the fact that the TIMEPROMPTWAIT variable in VMS is famously defined in "microfortnights".[1][2]
^"HP OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual". Retrieved 2008-11-26.
"Nothing Stops It: VAX OpenVMS at 20"
"DEC used by Digital itself:" PDP11 Processor Handbook (1973): p. 8, "DEC, PDP, UNIBUS are registered trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation;" pp. 1–4, "Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) designs and manufacturers many of the peripheral devices offered with PDP-11's. As a designer and manufacturer of peripherals, DEC can offer extremely reliable equipment... The LA30 DECwriter, a totally DEC-designed and built teleprinter, can serve as an alternative to the Teletype."
Edgar H. Schein, Peter S. DeLisi, Paul J. Kampas, and Michael M. Sonduck, DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation (San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler, 2003), ISBN1-57675-225-9.
"VAX-11" 1st Edition - Dick Hustvedt, 1975 [A19] - Stanford
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Dick Hustvedt, the consummate software engineer
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dick, hustvedt, richard, dick, irvin, hustvedt, february, 1946, april, 2008, renowned, software, engineer, designer, developer, several, operating, systems, including, digital, equipment, corporation, contents, personal, history, references, external, linksper. Richard Dick Irvin Hustvedt February 18 1946 April 15 2008 was a renowned software engineer designer and developer of several operating systems including Digital Equipment Corporation s RSX 11 and VMS Contents 1 Personal history 2 DEC 3 References 4 External linksPersonal history editHustvedt was born in Aberdeen South Dakota and grew up in Radcliff Kentucky home of Fort Knox He attended the University of California Berkeley studying computer science and was later employed by the Army Security Agency Following the ASA Dick worked for the Xerox Corporation on the development of operating systems for their Data Systems division Xerox DSD Development Programming in El Segundo California and was a principal kernel developer of the Xerox Data Systems XDS RAD 75 RBM 1 and CP V operating systems He was recruited by Ken Olsen to join Digital Equipment Corporation DEC in 1974 He moved from Los Angeles California to Concord Massachusetts where he worked at the company headquarters at The Mill in Maynard Massachusetts Married to Audrey R Reith 1936 2024 in 1976 Father of sons Eric Hustvedt 1978 and Marc Hustvedt 1979 On January 13 1984 he suffered a severe head injury in an automobile accident in Acton Massachusetts He resided in New Hampshire at the time of his death on April 15 2008 The VAX VMS development team now OpenVMS and part of Hewlett Packard named a conference room in his honor in Nashua New Hampshire facility DEC editDick Hustvedt was one of the three principal designers of VMS along with Dave Cutler and Peter Lipman VMS was first conceived in 1976 as the operating system for the 32 bit virtual memory line of computers eventually named VAX Version V1 0 shipped in 1978 and the VAX and VMS became flagship products for DEC Hustvedt was also the driving force behind the development of DEC s VAXcluster which was the first clustering system to achieve commercial success and was a major selling point for VAX systems His sense of humor is behind the fact that the TIMEPROMPTWAIT variable in VMS is famously defined in microfortnights 1 2 References edit microfortnight Retrieved 2007 07 06 HP OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual Retrieved 2008 11 26 Nothing Stops It VAX OpenVMS at 20 DEC used by Digital itself PDP11 Processor Handbook 1973 p 8 DEC PDP UNIBUS are registered trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation pp 1 4 Digital Equipment Corporation DEC designs and manufacturers many of the peripheral devices offered with PDP 11 s As a designer and manufacturer of peripherals DEC can offer extremely reliable equipment The LA30 DECwriter a totally DEC designed and built teleprinter can serve as an alternative to the Teletype Edgar H Schein Peter S DeLisi Paul J Kampas and Michael M Sonduck DEC Is Dead Long Live DEC The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation San Francisco Barrett Koehler 2003 ISBN 1 57675 225 9 VAX 11 1st Edition Dick Hustvedt 1975 A19 StanfordExternal links editWindows NT and VMS The Rest of the Story OpenVMS Frequently Asked Questions FAQ Nothing Stops It VAX OpenVMS at 20 Dick Hustvedt the consummate software engineer Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Dick Hustvedt amp oldid 1217742768, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
