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.
Dec 24, 2017 - Ecomstation 2.2 Iso Download. Mar 25, 2013. The ISO image to DVD please consult the PDF document 'howtoburncds.pdf' available in the. Ecomstation 2.2 Iso Download 11 29 EComStation Screenshot,,, and other various developers OS family Working state Current Source model 2.1 / May 20, 2011; 6 years ago ( 2011-05-20) with components Official website eComStation or eCS is a PC based on, published by and and currently owned and developed by XEU.com.
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. Microsoft Weekly Newsletter Be your company's Microsoft insider with the help of these Windows and Office tutorials and our experts' analyses of Microsoft's enterprise products. Delivered Mondays and Wednesdays 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. With 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. Of course, this love affair between Microsoft and IBM was to only last for a few years before Microsoft started to realize that Windows was taking the world by storm and not the much-touted OS/2 platform. To that end, the Microsoft and IBM alliance disbanded, leaving IBM as the sole entity to develop and sell OS/2 for the greater part of the 90s.
Because of IBM's vast reach in the enterprise, OS/2 did manage to secure enough of a following that a newer thick-client was a justifiable proposition. Thus, eComStation was born and continues on IBM's legacy. Not to mention, with older hardware dying out, eComStation is essential for providing OS/2 and Win16 application support while providing updated drivers to support newer hardware. An inside look With Mensys as the developer of their OS/2 product eComStation, new features have been slowly added in on top of IBM's latest version, such as support for a flashy VESA graphics driver called Panorama (which now supports widescreen modes out of the box), newer hardware support, and a vastly improved installer. In the upcoming eComStation 2.2 version, Roderick Klein of Mensys states how this release will bring sweeping changes to better improve usability as well as hardware compatibility. Microsoft visual studio shell isolated. The first and most striking thing to hit the screen with version 2.2 is the newly updated icon set for the user desktop.
Unlike the old-fashioned, pixelated icons of yesteryear, Mensys has upped the ante with a refreshed high-resolution PNG icon pack, bringing the operating system into the modern era in the looks department, which isn't a bad thing honestly. With this change however, all of the same user interface interactions are preserved, such as the 'right-click and drag' trick to create aliases of files on the desktop, the always present 'menu bar' and of course resource forks. The new eComStation looks quite slick and supports software, current and legacy As mentioned earlier, Win16 applications (and to some extent Win32 applications via the ODIN compatibility layer) are supported in eComStation. It's important to point out that support for older 16-bit Windows code can actually be a boon for businesses stuck with legacy software they don't wish to rewrite. Win-OS/2, a rebranded Windows 3.1 operating environment, is the software that lends such support to OS/2 and is bundled with each copy of eComStation.
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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.
Dec 24, 2017 - Ecomstation 2.2 Iso Download. Mar 25, 2013. The ISO image to DVD please consult the PDF document 'howtoburncds.pdf' available in the. Ecomstation 2.2 Iso Download 11 29 EComStation Screenshot,,, and other various developers OS family Working state Current Source model 2.1 / May 20, 2011; 6 years ago ( 2011-05-20) with components Official website eComStation or eCS is a PC based on, published by and and currently owned and developed by XEU.com.
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. Microsoft Weekly Newsletter Be your company's Microsoft insider with the help of these Windows and Office tutorials and our experts' analyses of Microsoft's enterprise products. Delivered Mondays and Wednesdays 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. With 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. Of course, this love affair between Microsoft and IBM was to only last for a few years before Microsoft started to realize that Windows was taking the world by storm and not the much-touted OS/2 platform. To that end, the Microsoft and IBM alliance disbanded, leaving IBM as the sole entity to develop and sell OS/2 for the greater part of the 90s.
Because of IBM's vast reach in the enterprise, OS/2 did manage to secure enough of a following that a newer thick-client was a justifiable proposition. Thus, eComStation was born and continues on IBM's legacy. Not to mention, with older hardware dying out, eComStation is essential for providing OS/2 and Win16 application support while providing updated drivers to support newer hardware. An inside look With Mensys as the developer of their OS/2 product eComStation, new features have been slowly added in on top of IBM's latest version, such as support for a flashy VESA graphics driver called Panorama (which now supports widescreen modes out of the box), newer hardware support, and a vastly improved installer. In the upcoming eComStation 2.2 version, Roderick Klein of Mensys states how this release will bring sweeping changes to better improve usability as well as hardware compatibility. Microsoft visual studio shell isolated. The first and most striking thing to hit the screen with version 2.2 is the newly updated icon set for the user desktop.
Unlike the old-fashioned, pixelated icons of yesteryear, Mensys has upped the ante with a refreshed high-resolution PNG icon pack, bringing the operating system into the modern era in the looks department, which isn't a bad thing honestly. With this change however, all of the same user interface interactions are preserved, such as the 'right-click and drag' trick to create aliases of files on the desktop, the always present 'menu bar' and of course resource forks. The new eComStation looks quite slick and supports software, current and legacy As mentioned earlier, Win16 applications (and to some extent Win32 applications via the ODIN compatibility layer) are supported in eComStation. It's important to point out that support for older 16-bit Windows code can actually be a boon for businesses stuck with legacy software they don't wish to rewrite. Win-OS/2, a rebranded Windows 3.1 operating environment, is the software that lends such support to OS/2 and is bundled with each copy of eComStation.