offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

[madodel]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 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).
>>>
>>>
>>
>> There was never any publicly acknowledged versions of OS/2 beyond the 
>> x86 and PPC releases, and OS/2 for PCC was difficult if not impossible 
>> to actually acquire even when IBM officially released it.  The PPC 
> 
> I know for a fact there was a MIPS OS/2.
> 


Are you saying there was a Non-IBM operating system called "OS/2"?

Mark



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