offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

[David Griffith]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, madodel wrote:

> 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).


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