Re: [pups] The Software Tools Virtual Operating System

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 SHOPPA(a)trailing-edge.com wrote: Tim, Thanks for the pointer. I was aware of the RSX version that was contained in the DECUS library. But there really was quite a bit more to the whole distribution than that. I am greatly saddened by the fact that this stuff is lost. I have received an official notice from someone at USENIX to the effect that they have not retained any copy of the stuff they were sent. Worse still, I was offered 2.11 BSD as an alternative. Not only is the software gone, there appears to be no one left who even remembers what it was about. To me this is equivalent to waking up tomorrow to find that all copies of Version 7 had disappeared and people thought it was just the same as MSDOS. Maybe I'm just being sentimental but I think this is another part of our history and deserved better than to be just abandoned. If anyone knows of a copy if the whole Software Tools Virtual Operating System, please let me know where I might get a copy of it. All the best. bill -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves bill(a)cs.scranton.edu | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton | Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include <std.disclaimer.h>