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Stephen M. Jones
Apr 25, 2019, 5:10:01 PM4/25/19
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Sometime in 1993 or 1994 CJL sent me a couple of RX50 diskettes with his
OS/8 for use on my DECmate. I was wondering if anyone knew about the
availability or this system (perhaps on bitsavers.org) as well as the
build tools/source around it. Thank you
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OS/8 for use on my DECmate. I was wondering if anyone knew about the
availability or this system (perhaps on bitsavers.org) as well as the
build tools/source around it. Thank you
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..!sdf.org!martians / SDF Public Access UNIX System / http://sdf.org
Quadibloc
Apr 25, 2019, 8:22:25 PM4/25/19
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Hewlett-Packard makes the old software for the PDP-8 and other systems available
under a "Hobbyist License".
John Savard
under a "Hobbyist License".
John Savard
Al Kossow
Apr 25, 2019, 9:01:39 PM4/25/19
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never been released.
David Wade
Apr 26, 2019, 5:27:03 AM4/26/19
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Not quite true. There are separate licences for various OS/S some of
which DEC term "Hobbyist" and other which are pure non-commercial use
licences.
Sadly there are also some OS's for the PDP-11 for which DEC sold the
rights to Mentec Ltd and which its not possible to obtain licences for...
The "Hobbyist" program only appears to apply to VMS licences.
Not sure about the legal status of the TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 systems
floating around.
Dave
p.s. this page seems to have lots of PDP-8 software..
http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/pdp8/index.html
Christian Corti
Apr 26, 2019, 5:50:02 AM4/26/19
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Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> Hewlett-Packard makes the old software for the PDP-8 and other systems available
> under a "Hobbyist License".
That answer is not related to the question. You may be thinking of the
> Hewlett-Packard makes the old software for the PDP-8 and other systems available
> under a "Hobbyist License".
OpenVMS Hobbyist Program.
Christian
Christian Corti
Apr 26, 2019, 5:50:02 AM4/26/19
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Al Kossow <a...@bitsavers.org> wrote:
> CJL's operating system is quite different from DEC's and as far as I know has
> never been released.
Right, it is called P?S8. But I think the OP is looking for a special
> CJL's operating system is quite different from DEC's and as far as I know has
> never been released.
version of OS/8 for his system tailored by CJL.
Christian
Scott Lurndal
Apr 26, 2019, 9:48:03 AM4/26/19
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mart...@sdf.lonestar.org (Stephen M. Jones) writes:
>Sometime in 1993 or 1994 CJL sent me a couple of RX50 diskettes with his
>OS/8 for use on my DECmate. I was wondering if anyone knew about the
>availability or this system (perhaps on bitsavers.org) as well as the
>build tools/source around it. Thank you
I believe Charles(?) still monitors alt.sys.pdp8.
>Sometime in 1993 or 1994 CJL sent me a couple of RX50 diskettes with his
>OS/8 for use on my DECmate. I was wondering if anyone knew about the
>availability or this system (perhaps on bitsavers.org) as well as the
>build tools/source around it. Thank you
Rich Alderson
Apr 26, 2019, 4:04:11 PM4/26/19
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David Wade <g4...@dave.invalid> writes:
> Not sure about the legal status of the TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 systems
> floating around.
Hi, Dave!
> Not sure about the legal status of the TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 systems
> floating around.
Bob Supnik, VP of Engineering at Digital at the time, arranged for a hobbyist
license for the 36 bit software back in the 1990s. When XKL acquired the
rights to the 36 bit IP from Digital, we grandfathered the hobbyist license.
(I ran XKL's pre/post-sales customer support organization at the time, and was
part of the discussion about this.)
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Rich Alderson ne...@alderson.users.panix.com
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