that doesn't mean a whole lot.
there are lots of products DEC sales people and engineers didn't know about.
I even showed them a few times, items they said DEC never had.
But customers had them.
I know what it was, it was a true luggable-style device. not a vaxstation and not Vaxmate
or something like that.
but again, it's been 30 years.
the one I saw 30 years ago, was sourced in a city 200km from me, and I've lost all
contacts there, if it even still exists.
If I could get it, I would.
as for OS/2, I never claimed it was actually OS/2 for PDP-11. All I said was, there was a
TK-50 for the PDP-11 with the OS2 files on it.
which I (and others) thought was truly bizarre.
So please stop trying to twist my words.
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:38:31 -0800
From: aek at
bitsavers.org
To: classiccmp at
classiccmp.org
CC:
Subject: Re: Any word on OS/2 for PDP-11?
My last comment on this bit of absurdity is
from Bob Supnik, who would have been in the
position to know as one of the senior VAX
engineers in the 80's.
I didn't even bother asking if a PDP-11 version
of OS/2 existed.
--
No, there was no VAX version of OS/2.
And a luggable wasn't done on my watch.
No idea who Dan Gahlinger is, either.
Does he have a "VAXmate" (which was really a
PC, and could run OS/2) confused with a VAX?
Now, if he means "luggable like a Rainbow",
which was just a PC chassis without keyboard or monitor,
then there were tons of those - every VAXstation looked
more or less like a Rainbow, since they all came out of
the same industrial design group ("any color you want,
as long as its beige"). If he means a real luggable,
with a built in monitor and keyboard, I never saw one.
But the VAXstation 2000 was fairly small, only slightly
bigger than a DECmate, so repackaging it with a fold out
keyboard and a small monitor would have been possible,
if some government group wanted one.
/Bob
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