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- From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
- Subject: Re: Ok just a teeny question..
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.014615.4882@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 06:46:15 GMT
- References: <jeremi.726702030@ee.ualberta.ca> <C0o7uz.Bsq@world.std.com> <1993Jan12.003905.2170@zl2tnm.gen.nz> <11495@prijat.cs.uofs.edu>
- Organization: St. Peter's College, US
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- In article <11495@prijat.cs.uofs.edu>, bill@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
- > Speaking of 2.11!! Now that USL is going to become a subsidiary of NOVELL
- > rather than AT&T, I wonder if there is any chance we could convince them
- > to waive the need for a UNIX license for this old a version?? Kind of like
- > what I understand DEC (thru DECUS) has done on PDP-11 OSes in OZ.
- > I can't imagine they are planning on supporting UNIVEL on the PDP family of
- > machines. I would guess that the largest number of PDP's are now in the hands
- > of schools and hobbyists where they do not provide any kind of a market.
- >
- > Comments??
-
- Unfortunately, I doubt USL thinks that way. For one thing, much of the code
- in 2.11 is 4.3-derived (or at least 4.3-inspired). Given the fuss that USL is
- making over the Net-2 release, I can't see them agreeing to this.
-
- On the other hand, it _would_ be nice if they dropped the Net-2 suit and
- let us have a free PDP-11 Unix...
-
- Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
- terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
- terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381
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