A big pity this, but it must probably is to help new sales... Keeping
obsolete material for a couple of years costs more because of space and
logistics costs too... A lot of crap though, makes life hard for people
buying commercially (not technically!) obsolete material. So to a certain
degree hackers and what not setting up a site with obsolete software could
be applauded. But it is difficult to condone all such conduct, Autodesk's
Autocad R14 has arrived, putting R13 on a website because it is 'old' is
not so good. But putting up Ogo software, discontinued software for a dis-
continued bit of hardware, would be nice, wouldn't it! :-)
Anybody care to mail a free url without passwords from hotmail about hard-
to-get ogo software? :-)
p.s. HP will must probably never put anything in p.d., they bought out
Apollo Computers a long time ago (1980-something) and many people who
salvaged used Apollos have a hard time getting the O.S. There seems to
be a quiet consensus on comp.sys.apollo that asking for and copying the
O.S. is o.k., even though HP possibly still sells it for USD 2000!
For a obsolete, 10+ year old computer running at 1-5 MIPS...
Must probably old news to all here, but still...
Have a nice day,
Franklin