[HECnet] TOPS-10/20 copyright status

[Hans Vlems]

Verzonden vanaf mijn BlackBerry 10-smartphone.
Van: Mark Abene
Verzonden: woensdag 19 november 2014 04:42
Aan: hecnet at update.uu.se
Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] TOPS-10/20 copyright status


You're likely right, and I had it backwards (SC versus Foonly).

On the other note, it would be really cool to revive TYMCOM-X and its dev environment (excluding the Tymnet Engine node-code generation tools).   But it's very possible that British Telecom wouldn't allow that to happen, if in fact they still hold all the copyrights that they absorbed from acquiring Tymnet and Tymshare.

-M


On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at update.uu.se> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 04:23:38PM -0800, Mark Abene wrote:
>
> If I remember correctly, Compuserve was using Foonlys towards the end,
> since they were much more economical to run than the Systems Concepts
> machines.   Maybe someone can comment.

That sounds backwards. At least the F1 was a very complex
machine even requiring a DeC PDP-10 to even boot. The SC-40 was
comparatively nimble. Lpok at gerrys youtibe videos.

I don't know much about the later foonlys. I'd like to know
more.

/P