Ultrix source (was Re: playing with the VAX 6460)

From: Eric Dittman <dittman_at_dittman.net>
Date: Tue Mar 19 15:52:25 2002

> > PPS: Have your guys ever tried to build Ultrix from sources? I found
> > some critical pieces missing, like /usr/sys/sys/kern_lmf.c and possibly
> > more.
> >
> > regards
> > -Gunther
>
> Hmmm... I wonder how *that* could have been misplaced? :-)

They've never shipped the LMF source as part of the standard
Ultrix/Digital Unix/Tru64/VMS source.

> Even as an OEM _with_ a $35K AT&T source license (still have a photo-
> copy of that for an expensive wall hanging!) we didn't have full
> Ultrix source, just full SYS III and SYS V source for 11/780 and
> 11/750 (respectively), AFAIK.
>
> Did DEC ever make "full Ultrix Source" an add-on software product?

I believe you could get the full source for any of the operating
systems for megabucks and an NDA.
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