From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f7CKg4V23972 for linux-mips-outgoing; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:42:04 -0700 Received: from dvmwest.gt.owl.de (postfix@dvmwest.gt.owl.de [62.52.24.140]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f7CKg2j23969 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:42:02 -0700 Received: by dvmwest.gt.owl.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E54BCC4FE; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 22:41:59 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 22:41:59 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Problem with PMAD-AA / DECStation 5000/200 Message-ID: <20010812224159.H918@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com References: <007501c120e8$fe293720$737e9fc1@shodan> <20010809175131.D30160@paradigm.rfc822.org> <001701c1217a$3f206960$277d00d9@shodan> <20010810123358.D12247@paradigm.rfc822.org> <20010812223219.B21308@bacchus.dhis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010812223219.B21308@bacchus.dhis.org>; from ralf@oss.sgi.com on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 10:32:19PM +0200 X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.4.5 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2001-08-12 22:32:19 +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote in message <20010812223219.B21308@bacchus.dhis.org>: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 12:33:58PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > That would certainly be an interesting institution to which I would > > > contribute, but for the sake if the webmaster those copyright matters > > > have to be cleared before. :-) > > As i said - I dont think anyone cares - I dont think anyone is able > > to tell who is the current copyright holder for the Decstation stuff so > > - sue me ... > No problem. There is a company who bought all right of DEC is now making > some money by supporting those systems. "No problem - let's sue Flo" -or- "No problem - noone will sue anybody" If you've heared of that company (which will support those old machines), maybe they're willung to work with us? They've maybe got all legal rights to software/documentation/thousands of kilometers of tape archives, but we're (partially) really working with these machines. So maybe we've got some know-how in practical terms which they maybe do not have... MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw . jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481