classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
Subj: Re: UNIX questions?
Tony Duell wrote:
Ob classic-computer-OS. I agree with some other
messages on this list - a
Linux/minix port to the PDP11 would be very nice. The PDP11 is just about
unique in that it's a popular classic computer with _no_ freely
distributable OS (in fact, unless you have the license transferred, you
can't even legally run what it was running before you got it). Now that
CP/M is jsut about free for home use, as is LDOS (for the TRS-80), OS8,
Linux, Minix (for educational use), etc, it appears that the PDP11 is the
machine that's left out of all this.
I am not sure if things were different for the DEC OSes for the PDP-11
but for VMS (VAX & AXP) one can legally run the OS and attendant utilities
(DECnet & the DCL shell) with transfer of ownership. To be legal you
have to purchase new license PAKs and/or new distributions for any of the
layered products which includes all the interesting compilers, DBses etc.
BTW to Bruce Lane regarding BSDs: A web page discussing flavors and ports
at
http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/BSD-info/BSD.html seems to be inaccesible
at this time.
For money you could try Ultrix as in:
http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/DECinfo/.2/SPD/26.40.32.txt
- and I thought digital was no longer selling ultrix products (?)
Peter Prymmer