[HECnet] HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

[Zane Healy]

On Mar 7, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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> On 2020-03-07 20:01, William Pechter wrote:
>> 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...

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


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