Sat Jul 19 2014, Vince Coen wrote to Gert Andersen:
GA>>>> The new OS2Net is more a Ecomstaion network the not have GA>>>> anything with the Real OS/2 to do, and Ecom can be run by linux GA>>>> and Windows.
TK>>> You really don't know anything about eComStation, do you? :D
>> Not much, but as i know is ecomstation a OS there is based on IBM OS/w >> there turned on hardware. :)
VC>Ecomstation is a very minor derivative of IBM OS/2 Warp 4.5.
VC>Had a look at it (v2.1) last year and could not see any real changes VC>other than for drivers and other very small areas.
VC>It still has the Windows v3.0 code cluttering up the system, still only VC>supports 16 & 32bit addressing. It is a dodo and yes I starting using VC>it with v2 and only moved to Linux when IBM refused the community to maintain VC>it and strip out the Windows code. We had a full blueprint of works to do to VC>it over time but was ignored for what ever reason IBM sub exec gave.
VC>Now it is maintained (sic) by a small company with regard to VC>development who changes silly money for very minor updates. I have to assume that VC>things have not changed in the year or so since.
VC>In the mean while file support for both OS/2 and Ecom is fully covered VC>with the GFD file stream from many German and Russian (and others) programmers.
VC>I distribute this network and it is always fairly busy.
VC>Just cannot see any use for OS2Net being revised, heck it died a death VC>due to lack of usage and any revival would just duplicate the GFD file VC>network.
VC>As for Filegate's OS2 offerings (in English), that has all but died.
VC>What do you want to do next, resurrect the CPM/MPM areas ?
I stopped to reactivate OS2NET and change both zone and name to ECSNET so it is for ECS EComStation. So the network is then ECSNET now.
