5 Jan
2020
5 Jan
'20
11:58 a.m.
On 01/05/2020 07:02, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
Just to clarify, the reference to "i810 RISC" should be the i860
("N-10"), their second general-purpose RISC design - versus the 960MX
OS/2 was to be morphed into a cross-platform
o/s,
to wean folks from dos/x86.....
True, but what few remember now is that as well as OS/2 1 (80286) and
OS./2 2 (80386), there was also OS/2 3 (CPU-independent). It was
initially developed for Intel i810 RISC boxes, the N-10 series, so it
was renamed OS/2 NT and later Windows NT... and here we are with it
running on a billion computers. from the BiiN project with Siemens in the mid-80s as
their first (?),
which would become the i960 that was popular in embedded
applications.
--S.