Regarding PDP-11/ and rt11 too

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Fri Oct 9 13:19:38 1998

Someone suggested H11 and I'd bet that one is more encumbered as it was
a version of RT and I think Heath was licensed from DEC.

< Obviously, I don't own a license for RT-11. And assume that the commerci
< license from Mentec is probably much more than a hobbyist would pay to
< tinker with old machines. Has anyone approached Mentec about the

Unknown, Megan any idea of cost?

< they would be more apt to create one. From what I can tell, an old PDP
< with no software license is virtually useless, except for
< hacking/curiosity value. After a half hour of playing around with the

Maybe someone could create an OS for the PD, patterned after CPM or ???.

< would be without the VMS-hobbyist license. I mean, who _really_ wants t
< run BSD on all of your old hardware? It kind of defeats the whole
< purpose of collecting the old machines if you have the same stupid Unix
< prompt on your VAX, Sparc 1, Mac IIfx, 486PC, etc...

That is especially true if your not into unix though, that is an option
for those that are.

Allison
Received on Fri Oct 09 1998 - 13:19:38 BST