If it's of interest to anyone (and I appreciate you are mostly VMS folks, as indeed am I some of the time) I did put up some stuff for installing a late fork of 4.3BSD (which qualifies as vintage UNIX).
http://www.tavi.co.uk/unixhistory/quasijarus.html And if you have an 11/03, 11/20 or similar, there's Mini-UNIX. http://www.tavi.co.uk/unixhistory/mini-unix.html On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 22:27:55 -0400 Michael Kerpan <[email protected]> wrote: > Currently, after the current hobby license expire, your options are to > either become a pirate or to learn to love vintage Unix. Of course > this is almost two years in the future: things could end up changing > in that time. > > Mike > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 10:13 PM Michael Huff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > To be clear: this license expires in Dec 2021? What are the options > > for simh users after that? > > On 3/11/2020 5:13 PM, Dan Gahlinger wrote: > > > > my hobbyist id is not in the pack. > > > > there is no renewal, this is a final license, after this, vms for > > hobbyists is officially defunct. > > > > Dan > > > > Try: https://www.grammarly.com > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Tony Nicholson <[email protected]> > > <[email protected]> > > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 11, 2020 9:07:56 PM > > *To:* Dan Gahlinger <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > > *Cc:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > > <[email protected]> > > *Subject:* Re: [Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist > > licenses > > > > > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 09:49, Dan Gahlinger <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > I'd like to know if the License authorization code is the same for > > everyone, > > or if they actually bothered to send everyone their own, for tracing > > purposes. > > > > mine ends in 301. > > > > > > > > Hari from the HPE OpenVMS customer lab is the administrator of the > > hobbyist program. He once told me that he maintains the program > > only out-of-hours and in his own time. Without his efforts the > > programme may have ended sooner. > > > > Be sure to thank him when you renew. > > > > The email you receive with the PAKs should have your Hobbyist ID on > > it. These are tracked. The final PAKs look like the authorization > > code is a date to me (pakgened on March 1st). > > > > Tony > > > > -- > > Tony Nicholson <[email protected]> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Simh mailing > > [email protected]http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Simh mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
