2 Jan
2008
2 Jan
'08
9:45 a.m.
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Jules Richardson wrote:
Just because the tape directory listing can be pulled
up and matches an OS/2
install tree does not mean that it's an "OS/2 port for the PDP"... surely
someone needs to actually look at the tape contents and verify that it's PDP
code before any such claim can be made?
It's not impossible that such a beast exists - but isn't it far more likely
that someone once happened to back up an x86 copy of OS/2 onto tape via a PDP
(for whatever reason)?
Ah HA!
Microsoft used to do some/all? of their development using cross-compilers
on PDPs. See Paul Allen's pdpplanet.com
If there isn't any more information available yet other than the
juxtaposition of "PDP-11" and "OS/2", then perhaps this is a backup
tape
of development files (maybe even source code?) Or maybe it's
just bookkeeping files of resources allocated to the projects.