Should I add a "Micro" PDP11/73 to the Herd?

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 healyzh(a)aracnet.com wrote: This is not a problem. One just has to make sure that one has a system in one's collection running Bob Subnik's emulator attached to one's real PDP-11s. Have the one with the emulator monitoring something on the real PDP-11 systems, or somesuch, then, you ARE using the versions of RT-11 on the real PDP-11s with Bob Supnik's emulator. :-) :-) :-) Ok, let's not make a big deal out of people using RT-11 on their systems. If they don't have a copy, someone will probably clone them a copy. No big deal, and DEC didn't care. I was actually told, by someone in customer service at DEC, to go ahead and use it and not worry about the license, a few years back, and, when a very pleasant chap from DEC field service came to my house to investigate a melted mains plug, no questions were asked. There, _in conjunction with the EMULATOR_ - it doesn't say to only use it with the emulator, but in conjunction with the emulator. Also, that bit about the license being revocable; that's probably as binding as a contract of ashesion. Let's say you spend a huge amount of time on writing some software to control various things around your house that runs under RT-11; you most likely have a right to continue using your software running under RT-11. -- R. D. Davis rdd(a)perqlogic.com http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd 410-744-4900