[Simh] OS development

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Sun Jun 14 18:41:24 EDT 2015


On 2015-06-15 00:01, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
> On 14 June 2015 at 17:37, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>> To be brutally honest, I somehow doubt HP would try to sue somebody in the
>> PDP-11 world today, but the question is how much you would like to gamble on
>> it.
>>
> Could we just have some blackhat "borrow" the source for all the
> PDP-11 stuff and slap it on WikiLeaks? I mean I doubt Assange is going
> mind getting sued by
> HP/Mentec/XX2247/Whoever-Actually-Cares-About-It-Anymore. And the
> current people who do have access to the PDP-11 code can just say
> "Hey, it's not our problem we got hacked. How's about we both sue
> together?"
>
> (Of course, I'm being facetious.)

First we need to find all the sources... Which might be equally hard. 
XX2247 have the OS and network parts, but it seems the layered products 
might not be there... Anyone have any suggestions? :-)

(I'm not going to comment on the actual wikileaks idea. ;-) )

	Johnny

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