Hi!
> 
> they couldnt do this because of their licensing agreement with USL.. VMS 
> was purely DEC's own thing, and DEC was free to do a hobbyist license or 
> whatever. Ultrix depends on encumbered USL code in some places.. 

Ooops....

> 
> of course, i doubt if the Q would care too much about ultrix these days.. 
> :( 

Not about Ultrix, but they make a part of Tru64 public. Perhaps the NetBSD
coders can see how something works in this code. (Many things havn't
changes from ultrix to Tru64). The only problem is, that the coders can't
fetch machine-specific code :-(.

Ciao,
	Freddy