Armando Stettner
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Armando P Stettner is a computer engineer and architect who is most widely known for spearheading the native VAX version of Unix, Ultrix
, during his tenure at Digital Equipment Corporation.
-based connections between UC Berkeley and Duke University. Later, Stettner proposed a dynamic compression capability be added to the netnews facilities. Once this was implemented, he went on to establish near-realtime netnews feeds news feeds to Europe, Japan and Australia. At a conference, he relayed the conversation during a budget review with financial department staff of the nearly $250,000 in phone bills attributed to his department's timesharing computer (known as decvax) explaining that these were computers talking. That seemed to satisfy the finance people.
At a meeting hosted by DEC, Stettner suggested the creation of OSF
, an early collaborative organization for developing open Unix standards. He later wrote the first version of its charter and approached Apollo, HP, and IBM to form the organization. Stettner was also one of the original members of the RISC-based DECstation 3100
core design team.
More recently Stettner led IPTV
development at the Emmy award winning company Digeo and presently is director of FIOS
Advanced Development at Verizon.
Ultrix
Ultrix was the brand name of Digital Equipment Corporation's native Unix systems. While ultrix is the Latin word for avenger, the name was chosen solely for its sound.-History:...
, during his tenure at Digital Equipment Corporation.
Biography
Stettner designed and produced the original UNIX "Live Free or Die" license plate. He also ported UNIX to DEC's symmetric multiprocessing VAX-11/782 system, though based upon Purdue University's asymmetric kernel. With Bill Shannon, Stettner was responsible for establishing near-realtime UUCPUUCP
UUCP is an abbreviation for Unix-to-Unix Copy. The term generally refers to a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between computers. Specifically, a command named uucp is one of the programs in the suite; it...
-based connections between UC Berkeley and Duke University. Later, Stettner proposed a dynamic compression capability be added to the netnews facilities. Once this was implemented, he went on to establish near-realtime netnews feeds news feeds to Europe, Japan and Australia. At a conference, he relayed the conversation during a budget review with financial department staff of the nearly $250,000 in phone bills attributed to his department's timesharing computer (known as decvax) explaining that these were computers talking. That seemed to satisfy the finance people.
At a meeting hosted by DEC, Stettner suggested the creation of OSF
Open Software Foundation
The Open Software Foundation was a not-for-profit organization founded in 1988 under the U.S. National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 to create an open standard for an implementation of the UNIX operating system.-History:...
, an early collaborative organization for developing open Unix standards. He later wrote the first version of its charter and approached Apollo, HP, and IBM to form the organization. Stettner was also one of the original members of the RISC-based DECstation 3100
DECstation
The DECstation was a brand of computers used by DEC, and refers to three distinct lines of computer systems—the first released in 1978 as a word processing system, and the latter two both released in 1989. These comprised a range of computer workstations based on the MIPS architecture and a...
core design team.
More recently Stettner led IPTV
IPTV
Internet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...
development at the Emmy award winning company Digeo and presently is director of FIOS
Fíos
Fíos is one of 17 parishes in Parres, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain....
Advanced Development at Verizon.