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From: wade@sdacs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
Subject: Re: DEC Software
Message-ID: <269@sdacs.ucsd.EDU>
Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 19:47:45 EST
Article-I.D.: sdacs.269
Posted: Wed Mar 11 19:47:45 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Mar-87 03:14:59 EST
References: <1545@tekigm2.TEK.COM> <2846@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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Keywords: Software, SW, ect....
Summary: public domain?

article <2846@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, carl@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Carl Lowenstein) says:
> article <1545@tekigm2.TEK.COM> daltonw@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Dalton Williams) says:
> >  Need Low-cost RT11 O/S for LSI 11/23/73.  
> Do you mean you want to BOOTLEG a copy of somebody else's software?  Or do
> you want to know about the lowest-cost way of getting it legally?
> 
> Ask your DEC salesperson about 'license to copy' which is the cheapest
> correct way to do this.


Correct me if I am wrong, (won't be the first time) but I am under the
impression that RT-11 version 2 and older (they are on at least version 5
now) is in the public domain. Of course version 2 is a bit primitive 
compared to version 3 on up, as it does not have the friendly DCL-like command 
line interpreter, .com files, etc etc.  but is certainly still useful for
"real-time" duties. 

Anybody have some facts on this?

Wade Blomgren
UCSD-ACS
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