11 May
2013
11 May
'13
1:20 a.m.
On 11/05/2013 08:35, John Wilson wrote:
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 06:33:05AM +0000, Ian King
wrote:
Doesn't LAN Manager (and Novell Netware) run on the VAX as "Pathworks"
so is OS/2 1.0, which was command line only too much of a departure. I
would be very surprised if Digital hadn't looked at it. And whilst I
can't remember my first meeting with UNIX I do remember my first
exposure to Pathworks, but the twitch when its mention is much less
severe these days...
TK50 drives are not unique to the PDP-11, and
will also hook up to VAXen,
Alphas and DEC MIPS machines;
Plus there are SCSI(-ish) versions (TK50Z-GA and
TZ30), that will work on
any machine as long as the tape driver indulges them a little. Not to mention
SCSI DLT drives, which were a perfectly reasonable backup medium for PCs.
Lots of ways for PC data to wind up on a DEC tape cartridge.
I'd be really surprised if OS/2 was ever
ported to the PDP-11, partly
because of the dates, partly because of the difference between the segment
strategies of x86 vs. PDP-11. I can envision some MACRO games you could
play, but I can't imagine why anyone would bother. :-) -- Ian
I'm with
you. OS/2 is very heavily invested in the idea of a per-process
memory area that's *much* bigger than 64 KB. The flips and twists it would
take to make it work with a 16-bit virtual address space would be awful.
Porting it to the VAX would be perfectly reasonable technically, but idiotic
from a marketing point of view. John Wilson
D Bit