pdp-11 software license and RT-11 V5.3

From: Megan <mbg_at_world.std.com>
Date: Thu Sep 10 20:05:42 1998

Jerome Fine replies:

>Bravo! Considering how fast other things have happened in the
>past, you seem to have accomplished the job in record time.

Thanks, but I didn't do much... just produced a V5.3 binary
distribution kit... the *real* work was by Bob Supnik, who
negotiated the license with Mentec...

>Are there any things you would recommend that this groups would
>want to be aware of? Any Y2K issues that you feel are important?

Firstly, I want to let people know that the kit put up on gatekeeper
was slightly flawed (in that it took up MUCH more space than it
needed to). A new copy of the *same* distribution will be available
in the near future (taking up only about 900kb instead of 3.5mb)
from gatekeeper... all the proper bits are there... nothing will
be missing, don't worry.

Now, as to Y2K... I doubt that V5.3 even had the support for the
extended dates (above 2003), so there was NO y2k work done at all
on V5.3.

                                        Megan Gentry
                                        Former RT-11 Developer

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