= Сообщение: 1008 из 12549 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Vince Coen 2:250/1 21 Jul 14 13:28:44 Кому : Gert Andersen 21 Jul 14 13:28:44 Тема : Reactivated OS2Net. FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:250/1@fidonet+53cd0797 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:230/150+53cb8765 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: UTF-8 ================================== ============================================================================== Hello Gert!
Sunday July 20 2014 09:05, you wrote to me:
> * Reply to message originally in area CarbonArea
> Hello Vince!
> 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 GA>>>>> linux 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 VC>> changes other than for drivers and other very small areas.
VC>> It still has the Windows v3.0 code cluttering up the system, still VC>> only supports 16 & 32bit addressing. It is a dodo and yes I VC>> starting using it with v2 and only moved to Linux when IBM refused VC>> the community to maintain it and strip out the Windows code. We VC>> had a full blueprint of works to do to it over time but was VC>> 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 VC>> to assume that 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 VC>> covered with the GFD file stream from many German and Russian (and VC>> 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 VC>> death due to lack of usage and any revival would just duplicate VC>> the GFD file network.
VC>> As for Filegate's OS2 offerings (in English), that has all but VC>> 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.
.. and what of the above points will it resolve?
Vince
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