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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/22/21 1:10 AM, Chris Hanson wrote:
> 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

Huh??  People regularly run BSDS211 and Ultrix-11 on real hardware.
Some Version 7 as well.  And I am sure there are people running even
earlier versions.  And SIMH emulates every model PDP-11 and I am pretty
sure all the supported hardware as well.  And then you have E-11 from
Dbit.  That one even emulates the Terak 8510.

bill