Any word on OS/2 for PDP-11?

[Dan Gahlinger]

that doesn't mean a whole lot.
there are lots of products DEC sales people and engineers didn't know about.

I even showed them a few times, items they said DEC never had.
But customers had them.

I know what it was, it was a true luggable-style device. not a vaxstation and not Vaxmate or something like that.
but again, it's been 30 years.

the one I saw 30 years ago, was sourced in a city 200km from me, and I've lost all contacts there, if it even still exists.
If I could get it, I would.

as for OS/2, I never claimed it was actually OS/2 for PDP-11. All I said was, there was a TK-50 for the PDP-11 with the OS2 files on it.
which I (and others) thought was truly bizarre.

So please stop trying to twist my words.

> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:38:31 -0800
> From: aek at bitsavers.org
> To: classiccmp at classiccmp.org
> CC: 
> Subject: Re: Any word on OS/2 for PDP-11?
> 
> 
> My last comment on this bit of absurdity is
> from Bob Supnik, who would have been in the
> position to know as one of the senior VAX
> engineers in the 80's.
> 
> I didn't even bother asking if a PDP-11 version
> of OS/2 existed.
> 
> --
> 
> No, there was no VAX version of OS/2.
> And a luggable wasn't done on my watch.
> No idea who Dan Gahlinger is, either.
> Does he have a "VAXmate" (which was really a
> PC, and could run OS/2) confused with a VAX?
> 
> Now, if he means "luggable like a Rainbow",
> which was just a PC chassis without keyboard or monitor,
> then there were tons of those - every VAXstation looked
> more or less like a Rainbow, since they all came out of
> the same industrial design group ("any color you want,
> as long as its beige").  If he means a real luggable,
> with a built in monitor and keyboard, I never saw one.
> But the VAXstation 2000 was fairly small, only slightly
> bigger than a DECmate, so repackaging it with a fold out
> keyboard and a small monitor would have been possible,
> if some government group wanted one.
> 
> /Bob
> 
> 
> 

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