On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> > Sparc-1's that I could get rid of. Keeps them out of the landfill.
> > And before anybody asks, no, I would not even consider trying to
> > package and ship them anywhere.
>
> Portland, OR. And, don't worry, I wouldn't even consider shipping!
Too bad. But the offer stands for anyone else close enough to
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre PA. to come by and pick one up.
>
> > Ummm. No. Ultrix-32 is not covered by the Ancient Unix License and
> > the last time I talked with Warren it was not available. Ultrix-11
> > is, but I hardly think that will run on a VAX. Of course, none of the
> > above precludes running Ultrix-32 on a VAX as Compaq doesn't seem to
> > care enough about it to even talk to anyone about it.
>
> Better go take a look at the PUPS archive. V1.0 and V1.2 is on it as near
> as I can tell. I looked earlier this afternoon. I detailed what I found in
> an earlier message.
>
Interesting. Not very long ago I was discussing this with Warren and
others on PUPS and the concensus (contrary to my belief) was that while
Ultrix-11 was V7 based and therefore came under the Ancient Unix License.
Ultrix-32 supposedly was based on a much later version and did not. It
seems that it must be only the versions after 1.x that fall under this
restriction. I wonder how close to Ultrix-11 the V1.x Ultrix-32 stuff
is?? If they are very close (or possibly even from the same sources) it
might make sense to go back to the earlier Ultrix-32 and then develop
both of them at the same time.
bill
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Received on Sat Jul 14 2001 - 08:35:31 BST