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From: berg@Lindy.STANFORD.EDU (Eric M. Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DEC-10 Assembler Inquiry
Message-ID: <467@Lindy.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 16 Feb 88 05:38:10 GMT
References: <1997@ukecc.engr.uky.edu>
Reply-To: A.Eric@GSB-How.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Stanford Data Center
Lines: 27
Keywords: DEC-10, off in nowhereland?

In article <1997@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> wes@engr.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:
>I understand that the DEC-10 is no longer supported by Digital.

DEC is no longer marketing DEC-10s and -20s, but they are committed to 
providing software support and hardware maintenance for existing customers
for the next 5 years.

>If this is the case, what is the status of DEC-10 system software in 
>terms of copyrights, et cetera?

At the December 1987 DECUS, the DEC people at the TOPS-20 update session
were asked whether DEC would provide operating system sources to "non-source"
sites (i.e. sites with "binary-only" licenses).  Their response was that
they saw no need to do so, as long as DEC is providing software support.
I'm sure the situation is the same for TOPS-10.  It's clear that DEC still
considers TOPS-10/20 to be proprietary software products.

[This is by way of clarification... I'm not sure whether permission is
required to use the DEC-10 instruction set for instructional purposes.]

Eric M. Berg					A.ERIC@GSB-How.Stanford.EDU
Graduate School of Business Computer Facility	415/723-3833
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5015
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Eric M. Berg					A.ERIC@GSB-How.Stanford.EDU
Graduate School of Business Computer Facility	415/723-3833
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5015