12 May
2010
12 May
'10
8:13 a.m.
Dan Gahlinger wrote:
you know, you trolls have to find better ways to take things out of context, this is
pretty lame.
I never said it was an os/2 port. All I said was:
"Hey, i've got a TK50 in a PDP11 that happens to have OS/2 on it, this is very
strange... I wonder what this is?"
Following is the original message.
Note especially "or just run it and have the most unique PDP on the planet".
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Subject: offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11
From: Dan Gahlinger dgahling at hotmail.com
Date: Tue Jan 1 03:02:54 CST 2008
Yes, you read that correctly.
I have in my possession a TK-50 tape for the PDP-11 system which contains none
other than
OS/2 operating system.
Many people have claimed this never existed. But I have the tape!
I had done a directory dump of it and can supply it.
One other person who's checked the directory listing has said it is authentic.
I'm not sure what to do with it, and I believe IBM made OS/2 open source, so
technically it should be "free"
of it's chains
maybe someone can turn it into something useful, or just run it and have the
most unique PDP on the planet, I don't know... whatever :)
anyhow, it's a really weird bit of computing history, and I'd hate for it to be
lost. it should be in a museum :)
Dan.
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and about the sun workstation, the guy that wrote the
first email protocol did it on that station,
or at least finished it there. You can ask him yourself, but he doesn't respond to
twits.
and i have said since the beginning i was willing to be proven wrong.
When you make a claim about some historical event, esp. a claim which counters
long-established historical accounts, it is not the obligation of the rest of
the world to prove you wrong, it is your obligation to support your claim with
something more than 'I say so'.
but instead of constructive criticism or converse, or
even any proof at all to speak of,
what do we have, mindless personal attacks, insults and non-constructive comments.