Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com> wrote:
>I know that Megan Gentry and many other RT-11 devotes
>frown on the non-official Y2K solution for early versions
>of RT-11. If anyone reading this wants to inquire, please
>add your 2 cents. Anyone who insists on a complete
>Y2K V5.7 of RT-11 is free (or actually "cost") to do so
>at whatever price they want to pay. Of course, I have
>been led to believe that Mentec will fix any bugs in V5.7
>that remain, but you have better get that in writing if
>you are depending on that to be done.
Please don't put words in my mouth...
The fact is that I am aware of no official Y2K solution
for any version of RT-11 prior to V5.7 (recently released
by Mentec) other than to upgrade to V5.7.
Any 'solution' for earlier versions would, by virtue of
the fact that Mentec owns the rights to the software, be
unofficial. Also, any such 'solution', produced using
sources which were purchased by a given site, would not
(as far as I know) be legal to distribute. They would
only be usable at the site where the changes were
developed.
I suspect that any person on this list who has a pdp-11
knows full well that there will be date problems in 2000
and many know what to do about it... they'll survive.
And those persons responsible for commercial pdp-11
systems will probably get V5.7, or again, they will know
what to do to get by.
Heck, when I was with the RT-11 development team, we had
customers who could take the system apart and put it back
together as easily as any developer on the team... RT users
were not naive users... I'm sure the same could be said for
the RSTS and RSX users as well...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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