offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

[Fred Cisin]

> > Isn't it amazing how several people who were, in theory, working together,
> > can come up with mutually incompatible versions of events that they all
> > witnessed?

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, madodel wrote:
> David Both wrote the original documentation for the IBM PC on the first PC
> off the assembly line.  Everyone has their own agenda, but I would think
> that Letwin was far more invested in M4FT then Both was in IBM, though
> David was from a time when IBM employees were said to bleed blue.

Yes, Letwin was part of the original dozen in 1978
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/images/exec/msft78.jpg

> No but I believe a lot of people assume that Microsoft took all the code
> they had been working on and used it as the base for the initial cut of NT.
>   The Cutler story is a nice diversion to pretend that it was written from
> scratch and was as bullet proof as VMS, but seriously considering the
> actual results I really doubt it.   Considering Microsoft's history of
> stealing just about everything they had ever done, why would you think
> otherwise in the case of NT?

I don't know how much of it was stolen from OS/2 (which IBM and MS both
had non-exclusive access to), and how much was stolen from DEC.

"Written from scratch"??  NO WAY.

> > A citation of Wikipedia [even when correct] adds little credence to any
> > argument.
> Fine with me, site a reference that lists a PDP-11 port of OS/2.

This thread is the first that I've heard of a PDP-11 port of OS/2

> > MICROS~1 doesn't seem to have EVER cared about confusion over their
> > product names.
> You mean like releasing the first version of NT as Windows NT 3.1 when
> there was never a 1.0 or 2.0 or even a 3.0 release?  Of course a name can't
> make up for it still being beta level code.  But then IBM did the same with
> its PPC release of OS/2 and the OS/2 1.0 release had some serious issues as
> well.

TRS-DOS started with version 2.0
Apple-DOS started with version ?
Version numbers were OFTEN corrupted to try to imply a placement relative
to competing products.

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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com