7 Jan
2008
7 Jan
'08
12:58 a.m.
madodel wrote:
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Nope. It was the IBM OS/2, packaged in with the MIPS off-the-shelf x86
emulation code and running *VERY* slowly on a MIPS Magnum. I know it
exists because I have it. The copy I have is clearly labeled IBM
Internal Use Only, and it is in my office, which is at an IBM site.
Peace... Sridhar
madodel wrote:
I know for a fact there was a MIPS OS/2.
Are you saying there was a Non-IBM operating system called "OS/2"? > 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).
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