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On 2015-09-23 04:21:55 +0300, tholen@antispam.ham said:

> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:
> 
>> eComStation, the Russian company that offers a PC operating system based
>> on IBM's OS/2
> 
> eComStation is not a Russian company.
> 
> eComStation is the name of the version of OS/2 released by Serenity
> Systems, which licensed OS/2 from IBM.  More recently, Mensys took
> over further development of the product, mainly things to help it
> boot on modern hardware, and even more recently, Arca Noae and Xeu
> seem to be taking on the chore of further development.  There are,
> of course, many talented individuals that are also contributing to
> applications for OS/2.

There's an update at the Reg.  Nice article.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/03/os2_returns_arca_noae/

Is the world ready for a bare-metal OS/2 rebirth?
IBM and Arca Noae to free 1990s operating system from its virtualized cage

//--entire article
A US software company has signed on with IBM to release a new native 
build of Big Blue's OS/2.
Arca Noae said its "Blue Lion" build of OS/2 will run on the bare metal 
of PCs without the need for an emulator or hypervisor.
Those still using the 28-year-old operating system and its applications 
typically run the stack in a virtualized environment on modern reliable 
hardware. The bare-metal OS will be freed from its virtual prison, and 
released to the world, in the third quarter of next year, we're told.
"The focus will be on running a full OS/2 implementation on bare metal, 
not just in virtual machines," Arca Noae said, "and toward that goal we 
plan to do a considerable amount of testing on popular, 
industry-standard hardware."
Arca Noae offers software and services for virtualized instances of 
OS/2 and various derivatives of the operating system built by third 
parties. The company said it has signed on with IBM as a business 
partner.
Designed by IBM and Microsoft as a successor to Windows on IBM PCs, 
OS/2 failed to gain a major foothold in the computer market, but 
nonetheless continued development throughout the 1990s. The last build 
from IBM was released in 2001 and official support ended in 2006. You 
can read our insider's tale of OS/2 here and here.
Despite IBM's defeat, OS/2 lingered on in various specialist 
applications as well as embedded systems, such as bank ATMs and ticket 
kiosks. It has since maintained a niche following, and is still 
supported by third parties.
Arca Noae hopes its new version of OS/2 will help to expand that 
audience and end the reliance on virtualization software.
"This will be an independent, full OS/2 implementation for the modern 
environment, with updated drivers and other software, and all the 
software that you can run on OS/2 and eComStation will also run on Blue 
Lion," the company said.
Arca Noae did not give any word on pricing. Pre-orders will not be 
offered until the software is ready for release. ®
//--entire article

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