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eComStation (eCS) – an Internet enabled platform for business desktop computing. The focus of eCS is to provide an organization with a set of world class business applications and an application engine which can support multiple API sets. eCS is REXX enabled and comes with support for Java, Windows 3.x (limited 32 bit Windows), OS/2 and DOS applications.

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The eComStation was released by Serenity Systems and Mensys BV, but it is currently owned and developed by XEU.com.

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eComStation 2.2 Beta is the last and final release of eComStation. eComStation is a modification of OS/2 that kept OS/2 development alive.

eComStation 2.2 Booting Up -- This boot screen is new in 2.2.

eComstation 2.2 displays this new bootloader before booting up. This bootloader lets you boot Windows 7 alongside eComStation (not shown) and lets you boot eComStation 2.x from JFS volumes, which are much newer and better, for instance, support up to 2TB disks rather than 64GB, than the HPFS that OS/2 formerly required for boot volumes.

eComStation 2.2 displays this when it boots.

This is the eCS Menu.

eCS includes Firefox 10.

eCS also includes Netscape 4.8 and SeaMonkey 2.14, which corresponds to Firefox 17, is available.

Flash 11 is included, but it can be a bit buggy. It works fine for most use though. This is based on the Windows version of Flash 11.

eCS includes some utility apps. More are on the second CD, including a virus scanner for Windows viruses. These are not shown on this screenshot. The icon Editor dates back to OS/2 Warp 4 -- however, OS/2 never included a zip viewer/extractor or calculator , relying instead on third party applications and the Windows calculator, so these inclusions are new to eCS. The Calculator, like many eCS apps, is programmed in PM/REXX, a unique OS/2 language also found in a similar form on AmigaOS.

eCS includes a PDF reader based on the engine used by Qt 4, Qt 5 and the like; the popularity of Qt in linux means this engine is widely used to view PDFs in Linux. However, the UI is not written in Qt4, even though eCS 2.2 now includes the Qt 4 libraries. (this image is in 128 colors to reduce file size)

The inclusion of Qt allows eCS to support many (non-bundled) Linux Qt apps like qbittorrent, a torrent client.

eCS includes some games, such as Solitare. A free Enertainment Pack is available with more games. In addition, several Java and Qt Games have been ported. There was also a port of Simcity to OS/2, and many DOS games will run on Ecomstation, if you have a DOS compatible PC.

A typical eCS control panel. This one is designed specifically for eCS and not found on OS/2.

This is one of many eCS specific driver installs; OS/2 had a very poor system for installing hardware after the fact. A similar system installs video drivers, and another similar system installs network drivers and protcols. These all replace the antique OS/2 'selective install' procedure, as shown:

This dialog is no longer used in any significant fashion in eCS.

eCS includes remote access apps, which are new in 2.2. RDP client is java based, and uses the also new-in-eCS 2.2 OpenJRE 6 based on Win32 JRE 6. Historically, OS/2 has had a Java presence, but since IBM left the platform, updates have been slow and buggy. OpenJRE 6 is the first major update to the java framework for eComStation or OS/2 in years.

The complex LAN configuration tool in eCS references obsolete terms like DDNS rarely used today. It was originally developed in 1997 for an OS/2 fixpack or the like and not much changed since.

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The eCS help tool is new to eCS and not found in OS/2. OS/2 has had online help for many years, but used another tool, an older design.

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The eCS tool is called 'NewView'.

eCS includes quite a lot of setup tools of varying levels of obsoleteness. (This photo has had it's quality reduced; the backgrounds are not 100% accurate)

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This tool, the Hardware Inspector, seems focused on pre-PnP era PCs.

The warpIN package manager on the other hand is recent, though a couple newer packages use the 'yum' command line installer ported from Linux, also included (not shown).

eCS includes a few tools for printing, one for old Lexmark printers, one for old printer types of several makes, but the newest tool, added in eCS 2.x, is CUPS, which is again a port from Linux (and OS X). This supports many fairly recent printers and standards, though the version and driverset included is not the most complete or newest.

eCS does not include a Painting program, but it does include the Windows 3.1 painting program, and supports running it via it's Win16 layer. Because of the way the VESA (Panorama driver, new in eCS 2.x; prior eCS and OS/2 versions supported VESA but less well) driver works, Windows 3.x programs display somewhat oddly. In addition, they cannot access or view files on a JFS or HPFS drive with >8 characters or certain other conditions, such as very large files. In general, intense Windows 3.x work should be done on a FAT16 drive, not the boot drive. (OS/2 used to support installation to FAT16, but no longer does.) Nonetheless, Windows 3.x programs run better under OS/2 than they would on new hardware running Windows 3.x directly, since VESA is supported for graphics, modern disk accessing schemes and SATA disks work, and there is a driver available for wrapping the OS/2 sound drivers, which in turn can wrap a ALSA HDAIntel driver for modern PC sound support. Also, Windows 3.x is limited to 64MB of available memory, like a real Windows 3.x box, no matter how much memory OS/2 has. Finally, Win32s support is only up to version 1.25.

Many very old programs, like this Telnet client from the 1994 TCPIP pack for OS/2, are included with eComStation.

Another example is this somewhat cumbersome but functional FTP client. Many OS/2 FTP clients are available that are better, and you can always use FireFTP for Firefox.

eCS doesn't include an Office Suite -- Serenity offers OpenOffice 3.2 for it, however. Before we look at that, here's a vintage 1996 office suite running on eComStation -- Lotus Smartsuite '96 for OS/2. This Suite is mostly Win32 code ported using IBM's 'Open32' framework, which was very incomplete and thus meant quite a lot of code had to reprogrammed to native OS/2 API code. Innotek continued development along these lines, with the Innotek runtime increasing completeness of the Win32 API layer, and then the Odin framework, which is used for the Flash 11 port to eComStation, is the final result of this work. None of these efforts are anywhere near as functional as wine, though Odin uses some Wine code, and as such is GPL-licensed.

This picture shows a Win32 app, mirc 6.x, running using Odin. The application was not modified and thinks it is running on Windows. Most applications, however, will require some modification or packaging to run properly on Odin.

This is the OpenOffice 3.2 suite for eComStation 2.2. This is the final version. It behaves identically to the suite on Windows.

eComStation 2.2 includes the 4OS/2 command prompt to replace the standard OS/2 command line, which is not much more capable than DOS 5, other than being 32-bit. The standard command prompt is also included, as well as a seperate DOS prompt for running DOS-based applications, both 32-bit and 16-bit.

eComStation includes Write, as well as all the other Win16 accessories you'd expect. Write is the only word processor eComStation includes, though there is a text editor provided in both CLI and GUI form as well as the MSDOS editor for the DOS prompt.

One of the newest tools in eComStation is the Volume Manager, confusingly titled 'installation volume manager' because it was originally written for the install procedure. The IBM LVM.exe and GUI LVM managers, which are cumbersome and confusing, are being phased out; hence, in 2.2, this is now the only volume manager (disk partitioner) to get an icon (the other ones are still in the C:OS2 directory).

Early on in OS/2 the lack of a decent file manager caused many to settle for the Windows 3.1 one. This became inadequate once HPFS became the norm, as the Win16 file manager is not well suited to managing such drives.

Luckily, although eCS still does not bundle any very good file managers (just enhances the Presentation Manager a bit to make file management slightly less confusing), the FM/2 file manager is a free download and is still updated. Although complex, it is capable and well coded.

Early on many vendors produced software for OS/2. Even late into its life critical software like Java 1.4, Acrobat 3, Flash 5 and 7, Mozilla 1.0, were ported either by the vendor or by third parties or IBM. Shown here is Acrobat 3. Whereas Acrobat 3 is a native OS/2 product, the successor on OS/2, Acrobat 5 (not shown) used the Innotek runtime which included a complete emulated Windows NT enviornment, a primitive predecessor to Odin. Acrobat 5 was the final version of Acrobat comaptible officially with OS/2 (reader only). Also ported to OS/2 in the later stages of it's life was StarOffice 5.1 (native port, to the degree that StarOffice on any platform is native). StarOffice5.2 was not ported, but users reported success installing it on Odin. OpenOffice 2.x was ported as well, but this port cost money. The final port in the StarOffice/OpenOffice line was OOo 3.2, shown earlier.

Due to the dated nature of the kernel, eComStation includes an ACPI wizard -- but the wizard does not setup sleep mode as eComStation does not support that (unless you have an antique APM PC), it is merely to allow eCS to run and support SMP on systems that require ACPI and to allow fan control.

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