[Info-vax] [OT] Mentec, was: Re: OT: For MAC Lovers Only :-)

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <k5e32j$too$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2012-10-13, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Mentec maintained all of them but since there demise, no one is.
>>
> 
> Yes and no.
> 
> Read the latest thread in alt.sys.pdp11 as this is currently been
> discussed.

Not only reading it, but I started it!!

What I said pretty much stands, unless oyu have data you are not
providing.  Since the demise of Mentec there has been no news on
the PDP-11 OSes at all.  If they are developing them it is in a
locked closet with nothing seeing the light of day.  And there is
no published way of acquiring any of them.

As I have said in the past, I fear this is yet another piece of our
history that is about to be lost.  I have a two volume set of books
containing hundreds of PDP-11 programs.  While none of these are
likely to have any commercial value they are all of historical
interest. And they all appear to have been lost.

If HP still controls the distribution (espcially of the sources) and
someone here has an in at HP, it would really be great to drop a bug
in the right ear to get this stuff released if for no other reason
than to preserve it.  My interest goes further than that, though. I
realize it has no particular real commercial value, but I have always
been very fond of RSTS.  I would love to port it to the x86just for
the fun of it.  And then see how far it could be expanded.  X11. TCP.
Who knows what.....  :-)


bill

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