[Info-vax] DEC product licencing, was: Re: VSI has a new CEO

[Lee Gleason]

On 8/6/2021 1:17 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-08-06, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> On 2021-08-06, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>> On 8/6/2021 1:28 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Right, though IIRC some licenses contained a right-to-upgrade clause.
>>>
>>> I have NEVER seen a DEC license that included "right-to-upgrade", and,
>>> through the years, I've seen many licenses.
>>>
>>

>>
> 
> BTW, I remember when I first started in the DEC world, my boss showed
> me some old slim stapled books (old even then!) of printed patches, with
> a different patch on each page, that you had to key in manually to patch
> early versions of RSTS/E. Does anyone else remember those ?
>  > Apparently that's how patches used to be distributed in the DEC world
> for RSTS/E in the really early days. I don't know if you could pay for
> a paper or magnetic tape option in those days.


   It was called "The Software Dispatch". They did it for RSX11M as 
well, probably other PDP11 OSes too (I only saw the RSTS/e and RSX ones).

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Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
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