Quothe Pete Turnbull, from writings of Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 06:11:34PM +0000: If I recall correctly, I did. Weren't there at least five of us? -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.

> > On Feb 4, ie ages ago, at 23:40, Jerome Fine wrote: > > > > > >On Feb 4, 17:48, Jerome Fine wrote: > > > > (a) As far as I know, there are no hobby versions, as yet, for > TSX-PLUS. > > > > However, if there is enough interest, perhaps we could inquire. I > would > > > > certainly be willing to contact S&H to see if they might be > interested. > > > > Since I was a sort of distributor for S&H at one point and I already > have > > > > my own license, I would be able to support hobby users. SO!!!! Are > > > > there any potential TSX-PLUS hobby users out there who would like > > > > to have this software? > > > Yes! > > ONE! I will inquire if the total reaches FIVE! > Didn't anyone else show interest in TSX? Jerome Fine replies: I DID inquire from S&H as to the possibility of a TSX-PLUS hobby license. Basically the answer was that they were waiting to see what Mentec would do - if anything - and in particular the ACTUAL wording of any updated RT-11 license from Mentec. I do agree that I have not pursued the matter due to a number of factors: (a) I was in the midst of (and I am still far from completed) switching to a "newer" hardware system and upgrading from W95 to W98. While this might seem trivial to most of you, I has been quite difficult for me. (b) The word on the "street" was that Mentec was just about to release a more reasonable hobby license for RT-11. While I will not go into the details, in the last couple of weeks it now seems most likely that the difficulty lies with Mentec in general and their difficulty to finalize the more reasonable license in particular. I doubt that Mentec is prepared to discuss the matter, so I don't know if they are concerned about PDP-11 software revenues being impacted or whatever. However, it is my understanding that Mentec's intention was to sell a CD, possibly at a price which would provide more profit than allowing users to share their own copies of any distributions which Mentec considered eligible. And since I have never been made aware of even hints of what the RT-11 license might contain, I don't know if the CD method of buying from Mentec was going to be the only option allowed to acquire the RT-11 distributions that were allowed under the license. In any case, since there were so few inquiries for TSX-PLUS and I was and am still so busy, I dropped the ball. But until Mentec makes the more reasonable license available, it seems that S&H wants to just wait and see. If a couple of others all inquire (in addition to Turnbull and Davis), I will inquire again. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.

Someone wrote... have I am also very interested in TSX+. Right after I finish with the HP2000/Access TSB system, the next system I am building is RT-11 w/TSX+. I actually have a legal full distribution of TSX+ on RX02 and RX50 diskettes, as well as a complete manual set. I did boot it up and play with it for a few weeks on an 11/23 before starting my HP2000 project. I am looking forward to getting back to RT-11/TSX+ so count me in!! Jay West