offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

[Fred Cisin]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Jules Richardson wrote:
> 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)?

Ah HA!
Microsoft used to do some/all? of their development using cross-compilers
on PDPs.  See Paul Allen's pdpplanet.com

If there isn't any more information available yet other than the
juxtaposition of "PDP-11" and "OS/2", then perhaps this is a backup tape
of development files (maybe even source code?)  Or maybe it's
just bookkeeping files of resources allocated to the projects.