> Johnny Billquist wrote:

>I am pretty sure that DEC did release OS/8 at some point. 

  DEC released OS/278, including sources, to DECUS back when the latter still 
carried PDP-8 software.  It even had an official "8-nnn" DECUS number; I don't 
remember it off hand, but I could find out.  As far as I'm concerned, that 
effectively makes OS/278 in the public domain.

  Unfortunately OS/278 was the somewhat hacked up version of OS/8 for the 
DECmate family.  It lacked many of the handlers and CUSPS related to 
traditional OMNIBUS hardware.  I also don't think the sources for any of the 
languages (e.g. BASIC, FORTRAN-IV, etc) were released with it.  Of course all 
these sources exist and aren't that hard to find, but AFAIK their legal status 
is up in the air.

Bob


  

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