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

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 3/15/2021 9:05 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

These are all systems built to run under SIMH on the PiDP-11 PDP-11/70 replicate that has been available for the last couple years. <https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11>

They are all "Hobbyist" but as things go, probably still not legal in the strictest sense of the word.

I think idled is just a program that makes the front panel lights blink in a pattern.



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John H. Reinhardt