RT-11 - An Open letter to Mentec?

From: Daniel T. Burrows <dburrows_at_netpath.net>
Date: Mon Apr 16 22:00:23 2001

I am actively involved in the hobby program with Mentec. ( I even managed
to drag a couple other members of the list into it) The RT11 release is
just waiting for one last update for something that will be on the CD. All
of this probably would have been completed over a month ago but I had a
major fire that destroyed my office and storage buildings at the end of
January. ( You don't even want to know the amount of DEC equipment and docs
that were destroyed - over 3000 sq. feet of tightly packed racks and
shelves) this ranged from 11/40, 11/04 through 11/93's, M90's, M100's,
numerous VAX's up to and including a couple 4705A's.
Needless to say this has put me WAY behind financially and with the regular
customers I support.

I will be announcing it here when it is official but in the meantime please
go easy on Mentec. It ends up trickling back to me and I am doing as much
as I can, when I can.
RSX and RSTS will follow as my time ( and the others involved) permits.

Also don't expect them to be willing to put any time or effort into support
of hobby users. If you want support then you need to be a real commercial
paying $$ customer that pays for the consulting time like many of us here
get paid that are consultants.

Dan
Received on Mon Apr 16 2001 - 22:00:23 BST