Someone suggested H11 and I'd bet that one is more encumbered as it was
a version of RT and I think Heath was licensed from DEC.
< Obviously, I don't own a license for RT-11. And assume that the commerci
< license from Mentec is probably much more than a hobbyist would pay to
< tinker with old machines. Has anyone approached Mentec about the
Unknown, Megan any idea of cost?
< they would be more apt to create one. From what I can tell, an old PDP
< with no software license is virtually useless, except for
< hacking/curiosity value. After a half hour of playing around with the
Maybe someone could create an OS for the PD, patterned after CPM or ???.
< would be without the VMS-hobbyist license. I mean, who _really_ wants t
< run BSD on all of your old hardware? It kind of defeats the whole
< purpose of collecting the old machines if you have the same stupid Unix
< prompt on your VAX, Sparc 1, Mac IIfx, 486PC, etc...
That is especially true if your not into unix though, that is an option
for those that are.
Allison