[Info-vax] XENIX VAX / PDP

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 9/28/19 8:46 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> You are not just interested in knowing that it existed - you
>> want the product?
>>
>> Well - it was not open source, so you will need to find
>> someone that can provide both media and sell you a license.
> 
> SCO currently owns the rights to traditional AT&T Unix and most
> derivatives and they have something like a hobbyist program that
> will allow you to get a source code license for older Unix versions
> free for noncommercial use.
> 
> Finding the media is the hard part.
> 
> On the other hand you could just run v7 and get all the good parts
> of Xenix without all the bad ones.
> --scott
> 

You can always run Ultrix-11 on the PDP-11.

Or BSD 2.11 if you want something more modern.
And Net or Open BSD on the VAX.

bill