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Date:      Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:49:01 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Mike Eldridge <diz@cafes.net>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Lynx test / 2nd attempt
Message-ID:  <20001207194901.D842@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012070915350.11294-100000@mail.cafes.net>; from diz@cafes.net on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:26:48AM -0600
References:  <E143ysW-0004Am-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012070915350.11294-100000@mail.cafes.net>

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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



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