My understanding of the Mentec hobby license only covered use fo rthe
emmulators, not real hardware.
Am I mistaken?
Gary
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerome Fine [mailto:jhfine_at_idirect.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 12:59 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: New find: DECUS RSX SIG Tapes
>
>
> >William King wrote:
>
> > I recently acquired a load of 9 track tapes from eBay. What
> a deal, I only
> > paid 1 cent for a trunk load of tapes. In there, I found an
> original DEC
> > RSX11M+ (3.0) distribution! I won't be putting the RSX
> > distribution online due to the copyright infringement problems :-(
>
> Jerome Fine replies:
>
> Since I the only operating system I use from the PDP-11 is RT-11,
> I have no interest at all in RSX-11. But I have seen a
> number of others
> who are very interesting in running RSX-11 as a hobby user.
>
> Based on what Zane Healy just provided about the Mentec hobby
> license AND the fact that V5.03 of RT-11 is available from two
> sites to be downloaded. I just provided those URLs in my last post -
> if anyone missed them, here they are again:
> ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/digital/sim/software/
> for the file
> ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/digital/sim/software/rtv53swre.tar.Z
> And the other is:
> ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/pub/PDP-11/Sims/Supnik_2.3/software/
> for the file
>
ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/pub/PDP-11/Sims/Supnik_2.3/software/rtv53swre.ta
r.gz
>
> It seems to me (as a non-lawyer) that a similar download for RSX11M+ V3.00
> should be totally accepted by Mentec in the same manner.
>
> >Now the questions
> > 1.) Would having the RSX11M+ V3.00 tape on-line be useful?
>
> YES!
>
> > 2.) If so, what's the best way to dup them and make them available for
> > download?
>
> I don't know if Megan Gentry can arrange to add RSX-11, but probably
> "minnie" would be glad to accept the file. That way everything would be
> managed in the same manner.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Jerome Fine
Received on Thu Jul 19 2001 - 14:04:56 BST