[Info-vax] Entitled attitudes, was: Re: vax vms licenses

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Mon Mar 15 10:05:39 EDT 2021


On 3/15/21 8:39 AM, Oswald Knoppers wrote:
> 
> 
> These are the different OSes I have (from https://www3.ispnet.net/pidp11/systems.tar.gz):
> 
> pi at pidp11:/opt/pidp11 $ ls -l systems
> total 52
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 15 15:23 211bsd
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 25  2018 blinky
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 25  2018 dos11
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 22  2019 idled
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 25  2018 rsts7
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar  5 08:12 rsx11mplus
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 23  2019 rt11
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 13  2019 sysiii
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 26  2018 sysv
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 13  2019 unix5
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 13  2019 unix6
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 25  2018 unix7
> pi at pidp11:/opt/pidp11 $
> 
> Are any of the above illegal to run?

I'll assume you are a Hobbyist and have no commercial licenses.

There are no legal Hobbyist licenses for:
RT-11, RSTS, RSX, SYSIII, SYSV.
Probably not DOS-11.

I don't recognize blinky or idled so I can't speculate.

bill





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