12 Jan
2003
12 Jan
'03
12:03 p.m.
There ARE no emulators 'owned by Digital' (or
Compaq or HP for that matter).
So the Mentec license is no help to anyone who wants to run pdp-11 OSes on
emulation (SIMH, E11 etc), and stay 100% legal. It's no help at all as
regards running on acutal -11 hardware.
Back when Bob was at DEC, the understanding was that this covered SIMH, and
a commercial Emulator that DEC sold. If anyone knows/remembers what this
commercial emulator is/was, I'd really appreciate knowing, as I'd like to
put the info up on my PDP-11 Emulation webpage. All I can remember is it
was some outragously expensive price that no hobbyist could hope to afford.
Zane
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