Richard Lary

Richard F. "Richie" Lary (born 1948, Brooklyn) is the "RL" of the PDP-8 "RL Monitor System", which subsequently became "MS/8". Years later, while working for Digital Equipment Corporation, he was also involved with other "DEC" hardware and software, including "principal architect for OS/8" and "working on the VAX architecture." 
Biography.
He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1965, along with ; they both were on the school's "Math Team" and "later wound up working on the VAX architecture." They were $2/hour summertime Fortran programmers in 1965, using an IBM 1130.
Lary left "DEC" in 2000, forming a company he and his wife Ellen Lary, also a former DEC employee, named "TuteLary."