On 01/05/2020 07:02, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
OS/2 was to be morphed into a cross-platform o/s,
>> to wean folks from dos/x86..... >
True, but what few remember now is that as well as OS/2 1 (80286) and OS./2 2 (80386), there was also OS/2 3 (CPU-independent). It was initially developed for Intel i810 RISC boxes, the N-10 series, so it was renamed OS/2 NT and later Windows NT... and here we are with it running on a billion computers.
Just to clarify, the reference to "i810 RISC" should be the i860 ("N-10"), their second general-purpose RISC design - versus the 960MX from the BiiN project with Siemens in the mid-80s as their first (?), which would become the i960 that was popular in embedded applications.
--S.
