On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:52:21 -0700 Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 3/11/20 12:59 PM, James B DiGriz wrote: > > In which case, why not a FOSS release? > > Bob Supnik got Unisys to release the sources to BTOS while he was > VP of engineering, but we've never been able to find a copy of them. > > They outsourced support to India, and all traces to what happened to > the software have vanished. > > HCL, maybe? They come immediately to mind as having the necessary clearances that many BTOS installations would have required. Or would they have been too late in the game? I'm not clear on the time frame of the outsourcing. Just a guess, anyway. Of course, the code might have ended up elsewhere, too, given those types of installations. Not the only Unisys mysteries I've ever encountered :-) jbdigriz
