3 Jan
2008
3 Jan
'08
2:29 p.m.
madodel wrote:
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
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).