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mouse and COM2 connected to the **Control Panel** output window.
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Once you've booted the [OS/2 1.0 Debugger Boot Disk](/disks/pc/os2/misc/1.0/88286/) from the assortment of
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[Other OS/2 Disks](/disks/pc/os2/misc/), you can click on the **Control Panel** output window, press Ctrl-C, and
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[OS/2 Prototype Disks](/disks/pc/os2/misc/), you can click on the **Control Panel** output window, press Ctrl-C, and
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find yourself magically transported into the OS/2 Kernel Debugger. The **Control Panel** display is functioning
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as both the output window for all PCjs messages and PCjs Debugger commands, as well as a serial input/output device
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(aka "Dumb Terminal") for any software inside the machine communicating via COM2: in this case, the OS/2 Kernel Debugger.
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title: Unearthing OS/2
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date: 2016-01-23 14:00:00
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category: OS/2
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permalink: /blog/2016/01/23/
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---
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Before OS/2 was named **OS/2** by IBM on April 2, 1987 (as part of IBM's "Divide By Two And Conquer" initiative),
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OS/2 was known variously as **CP-DOS**, **MT-DOS**, **DOS5**, or **ADOS**. Or, when referring to 80286-only and
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80386-only versions: **286DOS** and **386DOS**.
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And then there were all the early codes-names, like **SIZZLE**, **PIGSKIN**, and **FOOTBALL**, which were little-known
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projects to help improve and/or shape the direction that OS/2 was headed.
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To shed some light on those efforts, I recently added a small collection of early (mostly pre-1.0) OS/2 boot disks
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that provide a glimpse of what early OS/2 builds looked like.
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More details are available in [OS/2 Prototype Disks](/disks/pc/os2/misc/).
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*[@jeffpar](http://twitter.com/jeffpar)*
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*January 23, 2016*
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