offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 16:32:24 CST 2008


Jules Richardson 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?

Also, how big was the OS/2 1 install?  I know for a fact OS/2 2.0 
wouldn't fit on a TK50.

Peace...  Sridhar


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