dstorey at
barossafarm.com wrote:
Hi there
I wonder how I can get hold of the following CD, as I would like to run
RT11v5.7. Mentec seem to have been purchased and I can find nothing about
PDP11's or licensing on the purchaser's web site.
Are we now in an 'abandonware' phase with RT11?
thanks
Dominic Storey
dstorey at
barossafarm.com
Riseley, Berkshire
Jerome Fine replies:
NO!!!!! RT-11 has not been abandoned! At least not with respect to
legally running V05.07 of RT-11. A license and distribution are required
which cost about $ US 3000. If you can provide documentation which
shows that you are legally allowed to run V05.07 of RT-11 and actually
have the V05.07 binary distribution, then you would also be legally
allowed to have the CD with all the prior distributions as well.
By the way, do you have an active link to Mentec's web site? I have tried
to find one for over a year and none are currently active as far as I
have found.
If you have an active link to Mentec Inc., please let us know. Mentec in
Ireland redirects any links to a different company name (and no longer
cares about PDP-11 software or hardware), so that does not count.
With respect to fixing any bugs or implementing any enhancements, payment
is also required as well as far as Mentec is concerned, although it may not
be possible to have Mentec actually do the work.
Why are you interested in V05.07 of RT-11? V05.03 of RT-11 is legally
allowed to be run under SIMH - as far as I know, Mentec will not object
to hobby users doing so. The only noticeable advantages are Y2K dates
and extended device drivers for DU(X).SYS and LD(X).SYS which allow
up to 64 devices to be recognized rather than just 8 devices.
If you want any bugs in RT-11 fixed, I can fix most of them. I can also
provide
almost all enhancements that you might want. Are you a commercial user or a
hobby user?
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine