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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/15/21 3:06 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> 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.

Except for the ones I mentioned, the others (all the pre SISIII inix)
would be legal.

Another that could be there is UCSD-Pascal up to Version II.

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

Well, I guess you could call that an OS.

bill