30 Dec
2018
30 Dec
'18
4:44 p.m.
On Dec 30, 2018, at 1:59 PM, B M via cctalk <cctalk
at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Does anyone know the OFFICIAL status of RSTS/E source? I am aware of the
Mentec license, but it appears to only grant a license to the binary
distribution.
I believe I have source tapes to RSTS/E version 5 & 6 that I would like to
release copies, but I cannot until I can get official permission. I
acquired the tapes from a person who did some development on early PDP-11's.
I am checking my binary versions of the RSTS tapes and if they are ok, I
can release RSTS/E V5B and RSTS/E V6B.
--barrym
I thought that the current owner of those rights is no longer Mentec but rather XX2247
LLC. Not sure how to contact them, though.
V5B is quite interesting, since it's the first version that was built the way all the
later versions were, using the RT11 runtime system. From V4A to V5A, system generation
was done using DOS-11. (In V3 and before, as far as I know, there was no Sysgen, you got
your software built to order by DEC, probably at least in part using TOPS-10 based
cross-assemblers.)
paul