Releasing OS/2

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: Releasing OS/2
>   From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
>   Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:21:24 -0600
>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>Allison wrote:
>
>>My original intent was limited to OSs that were operable on PCs.  If 
>>there is OS/9 for PC then by all means but I'd suspect comparison would 
>>be to unix/linux rather than Dos/win.
>>
>>  
>>
>Circuit Cellar had a Z8000 and on card for the PC once. Does anybody 
>remember
>just what it ran?  Other than 386's was there any other add on cards for 
>the PC?

Cards to add other CPUs to PC are many.  At any time there were:

 8751 (multiples for Mandelbrot calulations)
 Z80
 Other X86
 Z8000
 68000
 16032
 T-11 (PDP-11)

All come to mind.  Many had no OS as they relied on the host processor for 
support.


Allison