11 Mar
2020
11 Mar
'20
5:52 p.m.
The PDP-11 and VAX versions of BSD have been freely available for years. As
soon as V7 and 32V were declared open source, that meant that everybody had
a valid Unix source license and were therefore eligible to download the
BSDs. IIRC, Novell or Lucent or whoever owns the copyright these days also
released whatever bits of V8-V10 could be dug up under a hobbyist license,
but unlike V7 and earlier, it's not actually open source. I'd love to see
System V similarly made available, but frankly BSD has more toys to play
with anyway.
Mike
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 8:06 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 3/11/20 6:26 PM, Katherine Barto wrote:
Unix newer than V7 is available at https://www.tuhs.org
Including System III, 32V, and BSD ports up to and including 4.4
The last time I wanted access to anything newer than V7 I had
to provide a copy of an original AT&T Unix license. I haven't
looked lately.
bill
> On Mar 11, 2020, at 3:18 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>> wrote:
>
> On 3/11/20 3:59 PM, James B DiGriz via cctalk wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:08:43 -0700
>> Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org
>> <mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Release of Classic HP3000 died for the same reason from the same
>>> company.
>>>
>> After HP bought TI's DSG lines, TI SysV was eventually turned over to a
>> 3rd party, who has so far been unresponsive to my
>> inquiries about possible hobbyist licensing, either binary or source.
>> Evidently S1500's may still in use somewhere, unless I'm just the wrong
>> person asking, or the maintainer simply no longer has the time, having
>> moved on to newer platforms. In which case, why not a FOSS release? I
>> understand it's his baby, but still...
>> Oh, well, I guess there's always the Linux port I was working on off
and
on. Hate to have to reinvent the DNIO stuff when I
don't even have the
binaries, but there you go.
I assume SysV means Unix SysV. Unless there has been a change
I have not heard about nothing newer than V7 has been released
for use by the holders of the Unix IP. I have a copy of that
somewhere.
bill