Megan wrote:
Please keep us
posted and contact Megan - I suspect that she will be able
to take care of all of the legal hassle for you (and everyone else).
I certainly
cannot take care of any legal hassles... but the license
clearly states 'RSX-11M PLUS V3.0 or prior'. As with the V5.3
distribution, people who take it are on their honor NOT to use it
in violation of the license. This is no different.
Jerome Fine replies:
Thank you for pointing this out again. I hope that we all attempt to
abide by your advice. Please also be aware that there is work in
progress (UNPAID by PDP-11 users who were or are still using
PDP-11 operating systems and real hardware - so it is taking much
longer than expected) to extend the hobby license. While it was
expected to be finished by now, hopefully by the end of this year?
Well, it may be a moot point... I just checked the old
address where
the software was available
(
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/digital/sim/software/)
and it cannot be found...
It would appear the contents of gatekeeper have be drastically
reduced...
As far as I can tell, you may have the wrong URL. The following
sites still seem active:
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/digital/sim/software/
for the file
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/digital/sim/software/rtv53swre.tar.Z
And the other is:
ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/pub/PDP-11/Sims/Supnik_2.3/software/
for the file
ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/pub/PDP-11/Sims/Supnik_2.3/software/rtv53swre.tar.gz
If you and William King can get directly in touch, I hope the two of you
can arrange to get the RSX11M+ V3.00 zipped ready for posting!
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine