1 Jan
2008
1 Jan
'08
4:57 p.m.
David Griffith wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, madodel wrote:
There was never any publicly acknowledged versions of OS/2 beyond the x86
and PPC releases, and OS/2 for PCC was difficult if not impossible to
actually acquire even when IBM officially released it. The PPC release was
the culmination of what started as a collaboration with Apple and Motorola
and they started Taligent to develop it. The original concept was
WorkplaceOS which was supposed to run on the PPC platform and be able to
run multiple OS personalities, including OS/2, MacOS, and NT. Apple bailed
first, then Motorola bailed, that left IBM alone with a product that was
half-finished and a hardware platform that was fast falling behind the
Intel platform it was supposed to blow away. IBM just tossed it out the
door to say it fulfilled contractual promises it had made to large
customers. It only ran on 4 IBM PPC based models and it had no networking
support and was flakey to put it kindly. Is Taligent even around any more?
Mark
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As far as I know the only released platforms for
OS/2 were the x86 and the
dead at birth OS/2 for PPC. I have never heard of it for any other
platform. I'd love to see a directory listing of this PDP-11 version. It
is possible this may have been a version of NT which had some rudimentary
OS/2 text mode support, but was not based on OS/2. I recall that NT had
support for x86, PPC, and Alpha CPUs, so it would not be hard to believe
that microsoft might have toyed with porting it to a DEC platform. But I
see no listing for NT for the PDP-11 on Wikipedia.
Weren't there also ports of OS/2 and NT for MIPS? For NT, that one seems
fairly well-known, but for OS/2 I'm positive it exisited too (at least in
vaporware).