14 Nov
2015
14 Nov
'15
5:25 p.m.
If you have some connections within HP, then please get involved in
trying to get the PDP-11 software released. It is HP who has the final
say. Unfortunately, getting anyone there signing off on something they
don't even know or maybe recognize they have, has turned out to be hard.
I know Al have tried.
Johnny
On 2015-11-15 00:56, rod wrote:
I am of the opinion that RT,RSX M & D etc could be
dealt with in exactly
the same way as the very successful OpenVMS Hobbyists program.
Its free but you need to be a member of a recognized group. In my
case HPUG. I'm also classed as a HP pensioner due to my DEC service.
One thing that has always interested me was could you build the next
generation of PDP-11.'s
I have an example of an 11/94 which was pretty much the end of the line.
So no DEC CPU parts allowed.
DEC form factor boards and connectors,
No Mentec boards
Physical Q-Bus
No Emulations - Runs say RT native.
Rod Smallwood
On 14/11/15 23:23, Mark J. Blair wrote:
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
I have no interest in causing any deliberate harm
to whoever may hold
the rights to RT-11, but I am curious about whether the rights holder
has shown any interest in preserving old RT-11 code and documentation
that has no current commercial value. I would very much hate to see
such stuff lost forever, and strongly feel that it should be preserved
now to ensure that it will still exist at some future time when it
either passes into public domain or becomes legally owned by somebody
interested in preserving it.