It was a cold and dreary day on September 25, 1996, and IBM had just announced their new OS/2 Warp 4 operating system. Although seen as technically superior when put up against the wildly-popular Windows 95 from Microsoft, IBM announced that this version would be the last it would ever release. It was a sad day for OS/2 fans everywhere, yet there was talk about keeping the platform alive, post-IBM. Enter and, two companies that decided to take the torch from IBM, in a quest to produce a solid thick-client successor to OS/2 called. This effort was kick-started around the year 2000, and has been actively supported to this day. With eComStation customers ranging from Boeing and Colgate Palmolive, to banks and even the US Postal Service, the OS/2 platform is still quite alive and well. In a few months, Mensys BV, the developer for eComStation, will be launching the next major release for their operating system, version 2.2. I will be covering the pre-release beta that Mensys BV's own Roderick Klein issued to me for review, but to understand why OS/2 is still even around and serviceable well into the 21st Century, we need to take a step back in time to gain a better understanding of the platform. Subscribe Product Information: • Title: eComStation 2.2 • Author: Mensys BV • Product URL: • Price: $149 for Home and Student edition / $259 for Business edition • Bottom Line: If you are running legacy OS/2, Win16 and DOS applications, you can't go wrong with eComStation. Blonde Guy's eComStation For Sale page. EComStation 2.1. ECS 2.1 was released in May 2011. EComstation is a reliable and secure operating system, originally based on IBM's OS/2 Warp, which delivers a proven. Please note that for ESD you need to download about 700 MB and need to burn the ISO files on CD. Ecomstation 2.1 IsoWith the multitude of improvements made to the OS, this product is most definitely worth a good look, especially once version 2.2 is released. An abridged history OS/2's origins as an operating system can be traced as far back as 1985, when Microsoft and IBM teamed up to begin development on was supposed to be the next step forward in operating system technology and design. Built to spec with a 16-bit protected mode kernel, support for the Microsoft-built High Performance File System (HPFS), and TCP/IP networking, OS/2 had a lot going for it. OS/2 1.3 was the definitive release between the two companies, which set a look and feel that would be later adopted by Microsoft's Windows 3.x user interface.
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