19 Jul
2001
19 Jul
'01
5:59 a.m.
William King wrote:
I recently acquired a load of 9 track tapes from eBay.
What a deal, I only
paid 1 cent for a trunk load of tapes. In there, I found an original DEC
RSX11M+ (3.0) distribution! I won't be putting the RSX
distribution online due to the copyright infringement problems :-(
Jerome Fine replies:
Since I the only operating system I use from the PDP-11 is RT-11,
I have no interest at all in RSX-11. But I have seen a number of others
who are very interesting in running RSX-11 as a hobby user.
Based on what Zane Healy just provided about the Mentec hobby
license AND the fact that V5.03 of RT-11 is available from two
sites to be downloaded. I just provided those URLs in my last post -
if anyone missed them, here they are again:
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
It seems to me (as a non-lawyer) that a similar download for RSX11M+ V3.00
should be totally accepted by Mentec in the same manner.
Now the questions
1.) Would having the RSX11M+ V3.00 tape on-line be useful?
YES!
2.) If so, what's the best way to dup them and
make them available for
download?
I don't know if Megan Gentry can arrange to add RSX-11, but probably
"minnie" would be glad to accept the file. That way everything would be
managed in the same manner.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine