8 Mar
2020
8 Mar
'20
12:49 a.m.
On Mar 7, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2020-03-07 20:01, William Pechter wrote:
Mentec only had RT-11, RSX-11M, RSX-11M+, and RSTS/E. *UNFORTUNATELY* they didn?t have
full control, or if they did, they weren?t 100%. At the last minute, they decided they?d
better run the Hobbyist License past HP. It was HP that prevented us from getting it.
They wanted serious $$$ to have their Lawyers review the PDP-11 Hobbyist License, and
there was no way to fund that. At the time, I had the impression they thought that they?d
have business later on that they?d be able to piggyback this on. Obviously that didn?t
happen, and then Mentec vanished.
Zane
Does that include IAS - - the one thing I really
want on the PiDP11...
Lots of my local newspapers ran it... Especially for classified advertising.
As far as I am aware, IAS was not included in the sale of PDP-11 software from DEC to
Mentec.
So I guess IAS is still fully under HPE control. But good luck finding anyone in there
who even knows about it...