offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

[Paco Linux]

Why dont ask for the directory/with CRCs or similar and compare with other
OS/2 checksums ?

Paco

On Jan 2, 2008 4:20 PM, Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Michael B. Brutman wrote:
> > How on earth does something like IBM OS/2 ever get ported to a PDP-11?
> > That doesn't seem feasible.  I'd have thought that I would have heard of
> > such a thing before this thread.
>
> Just because the tape directory listing can be pulled up and matches an
> OS/2
> install tree does not mean that it's an "OS/2 port for the PDP"... surely
> someone needs to actually look at the tape contents and verify that it's
> PDP
> code before any such claim can be made?
>
> It's not impossible that such a beast exists - but isn't it far more
> likely
> that someone once happened to back up an x86 copy of OS/2 onto tape via a
> PDP
> (for whatever reason)?
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>