3 Jan
2008
3 Jan
'08
2:49 p.m.
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
madodel wrote:
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
I know for a fact there was a MIPS OS/2.
Are you saying there was a Non-IBM operating system called "OS/2"?
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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).