2 Jan
2008
2 Jan
'08
9:56 a.m.
madodel wrote:
Good question. That is why I seriously doubt that
such a thing
existed, but as was pointed out NT was ported to several different
platforms including the PPC, Alpha, MIPS and even SPARC from what I
have read, so I guess anything is possible. There is Linux on the
IBM mainframe now-a-days also. Who would have imagined that a few
years ago.
I have a WNT Alpha box (i.e. cardboard with CD and docs inside) in
view as I type this. PPC also had an NT port. I'm not sure the MIPS
one ever made it out of Redmond, but it did supposedly exist.
Note that those are all 32-bit or 64-bit platforms and the PDP-11
was only 16 bits.
I guess an MS-DOS or OS/2 port to the PDP-11 would be technically
possible, possibly even feasible.
I very much doubt that it ever crossed anyone's mind to even try:
the PDP-11 was dead well before OS/2 was ever thought of. OK, the
last DEC PDP-11s were announced in the early 1990s and Mentec carried
on for a while beyond then, but who in their right mind would
consider porting OS/2 to the PDP-11 at that stage?
If this really is "OS/2" then I presume it is something else entirely
that just happens to be called OS/2 or OS-2 or even DOS-2 and the
first letter wore off!
It would be nice to know whether it is a printed or hand-written
label and _exactly_ what it says.
Antonio
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