[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Rich Alderson]

Roger Ivie <rivie at ridgenet.net> writes:

> On 2009-09-18, ChrisQ <blackhole at devnull.com> wrote:

>> So, is there any rt11 / rsx programming going on now, or any other 
>> activity, or is pdp11 finally dead ?.

> A better place to ask would be alt.sys.pdp11.

> Yes, there is some PDP-11 activity. The current owners of the PDP-11
> software, Mentec, seem to be unusually difficult to get in touch with,
> but I don't think they're dead yet..

Mentec USA is very very dead.  The parent company in Ireland has been acquired
by a company that has no notion whatsoever of PDP-11 software.

I have learned this first hand while trying to line up licenses for RSX-11M,
RT-11, and RSTS/E for some of the PDP-11 systems in our museum collection.

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