[Info-vax] OpenVMS Alpha V7.3x source listings

[Dave Froble]

On 7/26/2021 1:47 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-07-26, Timothy Stark <fsword007 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Me too. I am looking for Alpha source listings for working on my emulator
>> as development.
>>
>
> Hang on everyone, hang on. :-(

Hang on everyone, Simon's off the deep end, again ...

> You cannot just ask for access to the VMS source listings as if they
> were the Linux kernel source code. :-(

Sure you can ...

> Unless things have changed, they are a licenced product which is
> covered by a strict source code licence.

Nobody wants to use them, just to read them.

> If you just get copies of them without approval from HPE/VSI, you risk
> all kinds of legal issues.

Call HPe, say "VMS", and you'll get something like "what's that?"

> For example Tim, you are going to end up contaminating your emulator
> if you use knowledge from unauthorised copies of the source listings
> to help create it.

He's working on an emulator, not VMS.  An Alpha emulator is not VMS.


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