offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

[madodel]

David Griffith wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, 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 release was 
the culmination of what started as a collaboration with Apple and Motorola 
and they started Taligent to develop it.  The original concept was 
WorkplaceOS which was supposed to run on the PPC platform and be able to 
run multiple OS personalities, including OS/2, MacOS, and NT.  Apple bailed 
first, then Motorola bailed, that left IBM alone with a product that was 
half-finished and a hardware platform that was fast falling behind the 
Intel platform it was supposed to blow away.  IBM just tossed it out the 
door to say it fulfilled contractual promises it had made to large 
customers.  It only ran on 4 IBM PPC based models and it had no networking 
support and was flakey to put it kindly.  Is Taligent even around any more?

Mark

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