offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

[Jules Richardson]

Antonio Carlini wrote:
> I very much doubt that it ever crossed anyone's mind to even try:
> the PDP-11 was dead well before OS/2 was ever thought of. OK, the
> last DEC PDP-11s were announced in the early 1990s and Mentec carried
> on for a while beyond then, but who in their right mind would
> consider porting OS/2 to the PDP-11 at that stage?

That was my immediate thought too - the timeframe of OS/2 just seems wrong for 
a PDP port, hence my questioning whether Dan or anyone *knows* that it's for 
the PDP platform.

(Having said that, some ATM machines in the UK ran OS/2 for years after it was 
a dead OS elsewhere - it's *possible* that a PDP port was done somewhere along 
the line for a specific customer/market... it doesn't seem likely, but it is a 
possibility)

> It would be nice to know whether it is a printed or hand-written
> label and _exactly_ what it says.

Label scan, directory listing, file checksums/contents, details on the history 
of that particular tape (if known)... it's too early to say anything right 
now. Very interesting if it really is a PDP port, but I'd say that the odds 
are against it.

(I've been here before with tape media several times - labels are often 
cryptic, completely 'alien' systems get used to write data, or what looks from 
a directory listing to be something exciting turns out to be something very 
boring)

cheers

J.