11 Feb
2017
11 Feb
'17
8:20 a.m.
On Feb 11, 2017, at 10:48 AM, Bill Gunshannon
<bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com> wrote:
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You're probably thinking of XX2247 LLC, which apparently is the successor to Mentec.
But I remember some discussion about what Mentec actually owned vs. what DEC/Compaq/HP
retained. Or maybe I'm mixed up with the company that now works on VMS.
paul
A complication with all of this is the question
of licensing. There's a
hobbyist license for RSTS to build and run it, but whether that carries
over to making sources available is an interesting question. I'm not
sure who to ask these days, either.
Hmm. I guess technically HP owns it now?
Noel
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Not so sure of that. When Mentec went away the word was that some other
party had bought all of the old PDP-11 OSes (except maybe IAS) but I have
heard nothing about it in several years and fear a lot of it may now have
become lost. It certainly isn't being held in secret because of some percieved
commercial value.