Any word on OS/2 for PDP-11?

Dan Gahlinger dgahling at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 5 13:19:55 CST 2008


no confusion.

> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:10:18 -0500
> From: tshoppa at wmata.com
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Any word on OS/2 for PDP-11?
> 
> Al wrote:
> > I wrote: 
> >> I think it's time for me to unsubscribe from this list and
> >> get back to reality.
> 
> > Talk is cheap.
> > Let's see the proof.
> 
> Well, I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, that of
> the zillion layered products that DEC was churning out in the
> 80's and early 90's that a guy might mistakenly think something
> was on the tape that wasn't there because of the
> language DEC or somebody else used on the TK50 tape label.
> 
> But he tells me I'm insulting his intelligence by suggesting that
> there may have been some confusion based on his reading
> of the tape label. He's made it perfectly clear he doesn't
> want any advice on what was actually on the tape, he's made
> up his mind, case closed, there was a VAX named Saul and 
> OS/2 for the PDP-11 because he's been using the VAX since
> the year before it shipped. What else can you or I do, Al?
> 
> Tim.
> 
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