26 Dec
2009
26 Dec
'09
5:25 p.m.
Bruce Ray wrote:
G'day DG legacy preservation fans -
After 9+ years of negotiations, Wild Hare has secured an agreement
with Data General to recover, archive and release Data General 16-bit
and some 32-bit software for educational and non-commercial purposes.
A official announcement will be made next month, but I wanted to let
list members know that sometimes good things can happen.
A special thanks is extended to the amazing William Donzelli, and to
the quick-footed Carl Friend, who made the physical tape rescue in
Massachusetts possible. Thanks also to the legal and technical folk
at EMC (Data General) who finally made this a legal reality - and who
might prefer annonymity at this point.
Congratulations! It provides some encouragement for other such
arrangements.
I am rather curious. How will the software actually be used? I know
that many
of the participants of the classiccmp list will use the software to run
on their
Data General hardware.
However, is anyone still making changes to the operating system? Such as
in fixing bugs or producing enhancements? Is the OS able to handle dates
beyond 1999? I don't have any knowledge of DG software at this point,
so I wonder how having permission to run the software will change anything?
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine