Review of eComStation OS/2 1.0

JigSaw writes: "OSNews features a long and in-depth article about the latest version of eComStation OS/2 1.0. eCS 1.0 is developed by Serenity Systems after they licensed the technology from IBM when the latter had abandoned any hope for the success of OS/2. The article also has information about the future version of eCS, 1.10, which it will be branded as Entry level, Upgrade and WorkPlace. The Workplace version will include all the software one needs to run Java2, Win16 & DOS applications 'natively', and it also includes an X11 server plus a full copy of Connectix's Virtual PC that can run any flavour of Windows and Linux. In fact, eCS OS/2 Workplace will include a full Linux distribution as part of its VirtualPC package."

Comments

Cross Platform AND runs MS Products

[RogrWilco]

If it won't bluescreen, then I'm sold!

Platforms

[Traxton1]

For those of you who just can't pick one platform. Not, dual booting, what is that, like the equivalent of quadruple booting?

How to make software projects fail

[Anonymous Coward]

Are these two the same story ?

Re:*BSD is dying

[sulli]

No, OS/2 is dying. Get with the program!

Whats in a name?

[swordboy]

eComStation

Wow... That is the most "buzzword compliant" name that I have ever heard.

Who do I make the check out to?

Re:Whats in a name?

[Anonymous Coward]

Most likely iWebNetCommunityBusiness Inc.Ltd.Corp.

Re:Whats in a name?

[bonzoesc]

Sounds like eNetiConAppliance Online. But one of them is from IBM, and the other is from sweet merciful Lowtax, hero among men.

that'll be fun

[NMerriam]

which it will be branded as Entry level, Upgrade and WorkPlace

I can't imagine what a nightmare this idiotic Laurel and Hardy naming scheme going to be to support.

Which version do you have? Upgrade? An Entry level upgrade? you can't upgrade from workplace, thats a lower version. You want to buy an upgrade? Do you want the full version of upgrade or the upgrade of the entry level version of workplace?

Howard Stern

[autopr0n]

Howard Stern used to use OS/2 Back in the day (around '95), I heard him talking about it once. I doubt he still does.

Even more strangly, Rush Limbaugh uses MacOS.

Favorite Bumper Sticker from 1993

[3ryon]

OS/2 on a PS/2, half an operating system on half a comptuer.

Re:marketing integration

[Anonymous Coward]

OS/2 /O S too/ n.

The anointed successor to MS-DOS for Intel 286- and 386-based micros; proof that IBM/Microsoft couldn't get it right the second time, either. Often called `Half-an-OS'. Mentioning it is usually good for a cheap laugh among hackers -- the design was so baroque, and the implementation of 1.x so bad, that 3 years after introduction you could still count the major apps shipping for it on the fingers of two hands -- in unary. The 2.x versions are said to have improved somewhat, and informed hackers now rate them superior to Microsoft Windows (an endorsement which, however, could easily be construed as damning with faint praise). See monstrosity, cretinous, second-system effect.

1993 just called

[Anonymous Coward]

They want their bumper sticker and their lame joke back.

Re:IBM can't kill off OS/2!

[RazorJ_2000]

Ahh! An IBM insider! I knew you guys were lurkers around here....