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

[Chris Hanson]

On 3/15/21 6:18 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-03-15, Oswald Knoppers <oswald.knoppers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am not familiar with this. Which PDP-11 OS licenses were scrapped?
>>
> 
> It's been a long time so I have forgotten the details.
> 
> There was the original PDP-11 hobbyist program which allowed you
> to use older versions of the DEC PDP-11 operating systems on a DEC
> supplied emulator.
> 
> There were discussions about improving this program with either access
> to later versions or being allowed to run them on a range of real hardware
> (or something along these lines but I have forgotten the details).
> 
> These later discussions fell through and nothing became of them.

It's really too bad, too, because now there is no thriving PDP-11 
hobbyist community whatsoever and everybody just sits on their hands 
staring at their old hardware and nobody bothers working on emulators.

   -- Chris