> On Aug 30, 2017, at 7:31 PM, Guy Sotomayor Jr <g...@shiresoft.com> wrote: > > >> On Aug 30, 2017, at 7:14 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Steve Jobs would have been at NeXT at that time, he didn’t come back to >> Apple until ’97. >> >> Nearly 25 years later, my memory is pretty vague, however, around ’93 at the >> FOSE trade show in Washington DC, IBM had a system running both OS/2 and >> AIX. I want to say it was PPC, but it may have been x86. > > It was more than likely x86 and the AIX would have been AIX PS/2 (which I did > a lot of work on at the time).
I think you’re right, especially as, IIRC, it was a laptop. > The IBM Microkernel project (which I helped start) was the only way that OS/2 > ran on PPC. OS/2 was an OS personality on top of the microkernel and all of > its services. We also had a UNIX running as a personality too. My memory > has faded too much at this point and but I also believe that there was MVM > personality to allow DOS/Windows to run too. > > TTFN - Guy I remember reading about this, around ’95, I’m pretty sure it was in one of the Mac magazines. I was on an Aircraft Carrier at the time, I had both a Pentium 90 laptop running DOS/Windows, Windows 95, OS/2, and Linux, as well as an Apple PowerBook 520c running System 7.5 in my locker. Needless to say, the idea of a single system that could run OS/2, UNIX, and System 7 was very appealing to me. I’m pretty sure you’re right about there being a way to run DOS/Windows. Realistically at that time, everyone had a way to run DOS/Windows. Zane
