10 May
2013
10 May
'13
11:08 a.m.
On Fri, 10 May 2013, Jim Stephens wrote:
do you have a way to image the tape, so that people
could see what might
be going on. There were a lot of coprocessor system boards for PDP's
that were out there, and this might well be just a tape to install OS2,
or a backup of an OS2 image hosted on such a board.
Or, if a PDP-11 OR ANY OTHER MACHINE CAPABLE OF USING A TK50, were used
for cross compiling of ANY code that was ultimately intended to be used
ona ANY OS/2 system, then a backuyp tape from that machine would have a
tape labelled OS/2.
It is also quite possible to make a backup of a PC OS/2 system, and STORE
that backup on a PDP-11 with TK50 tape.
For obvious technical reasons, and direct statements made by Gordon Letwin
(the author of OS/2 and "Inside OS/2" book), there is NO reason to assume
that it is a copy of the OS/2 operating system, ported to RUN on a PDP-11!
We are still waiting for Dan to tell us the filenames that are on the
tape, as derived from the "directory dump", which he has explicitly said
that he has and would share.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com