Re: Prime engineering commands available on Jim's emulator?
- From: "Jim Wilcoxson" <prirun@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 4 Apr 2007 07:20:25 -0700
On Apr 4, 4:57 am, "Andrew Marlow" <use...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
guys (especially Jim),
I wonder what the chances are of commands being made available that were
only available to Prime engineers.
Right now I'd settle for getting rev 19 copies of DBG, Emacs, and
Midasplus! :-)
I'll help facilitate preserving, restoring, and archiving any Prime
software people have, but I don't have any of these engineering tools
myself. I think I do have an INDEX directory for rev 19 that has the
executables for deremer, pielib, sps (the source code comment
utilities used in the UK I think). That's also where PLP and SPL were
distributed from.
I have gear to read 8mm, 9-track (1600/6250), and SCSI disk drives,
and Al Kossow reads tapes into .TAP format too. If something shows up
anonymously (or otherwise) on my doorstep, I'll try to read it in.
People are welcome to email me at prirunxyzzy at gmail.com for contact
information (remove the xyzzy in the email address).
My ultimate goal would be to get all of the major releases of Prime
software setup. It's a shame that I used every Primos rev from 13
through 22, with source, but didn't have the foresight to preserve any
of it.
While I realize there is this nebulous "is someone going to come after
me?" cloud hanging over the Prime software, my feelings on this are:
- because of all the acquisitions, mergers, buyouts, etc., I doubt if
any company knows for sure whether they have Prime software rights,
and exactly what rights they have
- no company is going to give permission to do anything with the Prime
software because it will cost them time and money to have their
lawyers do the research and write the documents, and there's no
payback
- a company *may* make some noise about rights violations, but my plan
is to simply ask them to show me the chain of documentation proving
they own the rights in question, and I'll take down whatever they can
prove infringes on it. I'm not distributing anything, so it's easy
for me to take down stuff if it becomes necessary.
- no company is going to spend money on lawyers to come after someone
for using or publishing 15-20 year-old software that is clearly
obsolete and has no value in the marketplace
- I won't make any 50-series CAD software available on the emulator
- the US Copyright Office has introduced legislation to address
Orphaned Works, and in my opinion, the Prime 50-series software will
eventually fall under this if it doesn't already
- any software that comes my way gets thoroughly sanitized before it
goes on a public emulator. I have a rev 20 setup, which is kinda nice
because it has search rules and some other neat stuff, but I won't
make it available yet as some of the software is serialized and spits
out company names. I'm willing to take certain risks myself, but not
if it might impact other people without their consent. (Plus the rev
20 setup is not nearly complete as far as languages go.)
In other news, I found the tape drive PS3 bug, so might be able to
load some new toys. To be honest, I don't understand why it ever
worked - definitely wasn't a PS3 problem.
Jim
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