HELP - Cheap form of UN*X wanted for PDP
gwyn at BRL-VLD.ARPA
gwyn at BRL-VLD.ARPA
Sun Jun 17 12:20:27 AEST 1984
From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn at BRL-VLD.ARPA>
You can get a binary license for UNIX on the PDP-11/73 from DEC
but NOT from DECUS. DECUS does have a C compiler for RSX though.
The DEC PDP-11 UNIX product used to be called something like
UNIX V7M-11 but the name may have been changed to ULTRIX-11.
You may be able to sublicense UNIX from an OEM, although they
usually want to sell you the hardware too.
There are some UNIX "look-alikes" available, and one of these may
keep you happy. Every so often they are reviewed in one of the
glossy UNIX trade magazines. I hesitate to mention any since I
may well inadvertently leave some out, but I will mention that the
first UNIX look-alike commercially available seems to have been
Whitesmith's IDRIS.
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