recent acquisitions for the House of VAX

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Sat Sep 8 11:18:06 2001

At 10:41 AM 9/8/01 -0500, Eric wrote:
>I asked about PL/I not being included in the Hobbyist licensing program and
>was told that was because Compaq no longer owns PL/I. I guess APL isn't in
>the Hobbyist license set as that hasn't been a deliverable for a long time.
>Does anyone know when it was last included in the ConDist sets? If so I
>can look for it. I have several year's worth of ConDist CDs but have lost
>the paperwork that listed the included products.

The first disk of every ConDist has the all paperwork on it as postscript
and text files. You can print it out again if you lose it :-) I believe the
'94 and '96 ConDists both have APL on them.

>Of course a PAK generator solves the problem of missing PAKs quite nicely.

Yes it does, however I am dearly afraid that with HP and Compaq doing the
dance that the lore of such things will be permanently lost at some point.
If Compaq would just say "screw it, the next time someone requests a
license give them a non-expiring one." my heart would rest easier...

--Chuck
Received on Sat Sep 08 2001 - 11:18:06 BST