I read a web page somewhere that indicated DEC put in
the public domain
all the documentation they no longer publish.
Is this true? Can anyone point me back to the original web page?
No, it's not true. They have given permission to reproduce certain software
documentation, but they have not put *any* of it into the public domain.
There's a big difference.
Here's some info I found in John Wilson's FTP archive, excerpted from
the file
ftp://ftp.dbit.com/pub/pdp8/doc/README
Note that it is restricted to Digtal's customers. I wonder how lawyers
interpret that.