Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:25:12 -0500
From: mxs46@k2.scl.cwru.edu (Michael Sokolov)
Message-Id: <199901260125.UAA03071@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu>
To: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au
Subject: Re: KA650-B V1.2 CPU EPROM image
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allisonp@world.std.com (Allison J Parent) wrote:

> Get that out of there fast, it's copyrighted firmware!

The PUPS archive already contains some PDP-11 boot/diag/etc. odds and ends. Why
not have VAX ones too?

But if too many people start complaining, I'll just move the entire odds-ends
directory to one of my friend's _anonymous_ FTP site.

BTW, there is a long tradition of shipping DEC odds and ends with UNIX. Just
look at pcs750.bin, or at DEC-contributed device drivers in 4.3BSD, or at the
fact that if you do a strings(1) on 4.3BSD /genvmunix, you'll see DEC's
copyright and the word "ULTRIX" in a whole bunch of places. Ancient UNIX and
Ancient DEC live together very well. Please don't separate them. If our group
(PUPS/TUHS) loves and cares for Ancient UNIX, we should also love and care for
Ancient DEC.

And finally, some of the files in my odds-ends directory were originally
recovered from some BSD distribution (the ULTRIX rabads program, which despite
its DEC copyright, ULTRIX origin, and binary-only nature came with some BSD
distributions).

Michael Sokolov
TUHS 4BSD Coordinator
4.3BSD-* Maintainer
Quasijarus Project Principal Architect & Developer
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