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

[Oswald Knoppers]

Op maandag 15 maart 2021 om 20:06:42 UTC+1 schreef 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. 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> John H. Reinhardt
Yes that is correct. 

The PiDP11 is a real fun thing to build and run. I am using the status register leds as a binary clock.

I just downloaded the tar file with these OSes and didn't think of any licensing requirements. 

Oswald