offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 16:29:46 CST 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 

I know for a fact there was a MIPS OS/2.

Peace...  Sridhar


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