> On Feb 11, 2017, at 10:48 AM, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshan...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > ... >> A complication with all of this is the question of licensing. There's a >> hobbyist license for RSTS to build and run it, but whether that carries >> over to making sources available is an interesting question. I'm not >> sure who to ask these days, either. > > Hmm. I guess technically HP owns it now? > > Noel > ______________________________________________________ > > Not so sure of that. When Mentec went away the word was that some other > party had bought all of the old PDP-11 OSes (except maybe IAS) but I have > heard nothing about it in several years and fear a lot of it may now have > become lost. It certainly isn't being held in secret because of some > percieved > commercial value.
You're probably thinking of XX2247 LLC, which apparently is the successor to Mentec. But I remember some discussion about what Mentec actually owned vs. what DEC/Compaq/HP retained. Or maybe I'm mixed up with the company that now works on VMS. paul