Releasing OS/2

['Computer Collector Newsletter']

Whoa, OS/2 was * just * on my mind tonight.  I need to know (as precisely as
possible) when Warp Beta II debuted.  Also, I need to know it right away, is
urgent...

Thanks,

 Evan

-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Tore S Bekkedal
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:08 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Releasing OS/2

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 17:43 -0400, Allison wrote:
> >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)
Norsk Data made a NORD-100 on a 3/4 or full-length ISA board. It cost
millions and millions of kroner (7 kr ~= 1 $) in RnD in the 1980s. I
think it was one of their biggest flops. I think the amount of units
sold barely made three digits. It might have been the first ND-100 in
VLSI. It would trap in and out of ND-100 mode using a special keycode on
the keyboard in the PC's they sold them with. When in ND mode it would
use the x86 as an I/O processor, and communicate with it using a memory
window. 

IBM also had S/370 MCA boards implementing a microcoded S/370 on a
MC68000.
> All come to mind.  Many had no OS as they relied on the host processor for

> support.
The '100 had a to me unknown amount of RAM, but probably no more than
1MB and no less than 128KB. It ran SINTRAN on the onboard RAM. I know of
the existance of one and will snap a shot or two of it next time I'm
there.

-toresbe