New find: DECUS RSX SIG Tapes - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Jul 2001

My understanding of the Mentec hobby license only covered use fo rthe
emmulators, not real hardware.

Am I mistaken?

Gary
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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Jerome Fine [mailto:jhfine@idirect.com]
 Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 12:59 PM
 To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
 Subject: Re: New find: DECUS RSX SIG Tapes

 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.ta
r.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 