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OS/2 FOOTBALL Boot Disk (v7.68.17)
This disk contains a prototype version of OS/2 from early 1987 (code-named FOOTBALL) that was designed to test new features of the Intel 80386 processor (eg, paging and V86-mode). Most of the work on this prototype occurred between December 1, 1986 and February 28, 1987, with the principal goal of demonstrating multiple DOS applications running in V86-mode to BillG (the demo probably occurred in March 1987), but also with the underlying goal of demonstrating to IBM that Microsoft was ahead of the curve on 32-bit design considerations for OS/2.
The FOOTBALL prototype was forked from pre-1.0 OS/2 sources, and the only hardware it supported was the Compaq DeskPro 386-16. The source code was later sent to IBM, and as of April 1987, they were adapting it to run on the Model 80 PS/2. No versions of FOOTBALL were ever released outside of Microsoft and IBM.
Although FOOTBALL contained features not found in OS/2 until version 2.0, there is no direct connection between this internal Microsoft effort and OS/2 2.0. Some of the 32-bit support and paging work undoubtedly migrated to version 2.0 eventually, but that would have happened much later, since work on OS/2 2.0 did not begin in earnest until October 1987, after 1.0 was finished.
A directory listing of this disk is provided below.
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Directory of OS/2 FOOTBALL Boot Disk (v7.68.17)
Volume in drive A has no label
Directory of A:\
IBMBIO COM 50689 2-27-87 3:49p
IBMDOS COM 216962 2-27-87 3:48p
OSO001 MSG 40730 2-27-87 12:24p
ANSICALL EXE 3165 2-27-87 11:34a
BKSCALLS EXE 3611 2-27-87 11:51a
BMSCALLS EXE 2064 2-27-87 11:55a
BVSCALLS EXE 11710 2-27-87 12:02p
DOSCALL1 EXE 7071 2-27-87 12:03p
KBDCALLS EXE 4138 2-27-87 12:04p
MONCALLS EXE 5655 2-27-87 12:09p
MOUCALLS EXE 5177 2-27-87 12:16p
QUECALLS EXE 11508 2-27-87 12:28p
SESMGR EXE 25744 2-27-87 12:41p
SHELL EXE 4096 2-27-87 12:43p
VIOCALLS EXE 9833 2-27-87 12:47p
CMD EXE 47056 11-17-86 1:52p
VT52 SYS 3205 10-27-86 3:57p
IBMDOS SYM 50692 2-27-87 3:48p
COUNTRY SYS 6175 11-03-86 8:32p
MSG EXE 5824 11-03-86 8:36p
NLS EXE 3124 11-03-86 8:37p
SWAPPER EXE 4150 2-25-87 8:04p
EXEHDR EXE 23242 10-17-86 2:24p
COMMAND COM 23724 10-27-86 3:57p
CONFIG SYS 90 2-27-87 4:14p
POINTDD SYS 4240 11-03-86 7:28p
VDISK SYS 4662 11-03-86 7:28p
PGSWP32 EXE 7570 2-02-87 12:20p
LIN EXE 8084 2-12-87 3:00p
MAIN EXE 32482 11-14-86 12:44p
CPGREP EXE 25286 10-21-86 9:08p
31 File(s) 549888 bytes free
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