From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Dec 7 10:49:32 2000 From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 10:49:30 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A8137B401 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:49:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14466e-000JKs-00; Thu, 07 Dec 2000 18:49:24 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.1/8.11.0) id eB7In1C01634; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:49:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:49:01 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Mike Eldridge Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lynx test / 2nd attempt Message-ID: <20001207194901.D842@freebie.demon.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from diz@cafes.net on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:26:48AM -0600 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:26:48AM -0600, Mike Eldridge wrote: > On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 wkb@freebie.demon.nl wrote: > > > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > Zero, without access to SRM sources. > > > > > > > > Gee, Mike, that's quite a lashing tongue you have. :) > > > > > > > > What's to stop anyone from writing their own SRM? Reverse engineering? > > > > Is it against the license? Does SRM even have a license? > > > > > > It's one of those "if you have to ask" questions, really. > > > > Absolutely ;) SRM is a closely guarded secret even within DEC/CPQ. > > And yes, it is licensed. Even if you had the source code you would have > > to use VMS to build the code 8) > > Figures. :) VMS on Alpha of course. > On the bright side, if you had the source, a local community college here > still runs VMS on VAX. There are DEC vt100, vt220, vt300, vt320, and We call that a museum. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message