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  • Return of OS/2 Warp set for 2016

    From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to All on Friday, May 06, 2016 22:04:03
    I saw this article the other day:
    http://bit.ly/1TN8dmk
    An anonymous reader writes:
    We all know the ill-fated history of IBM's OS/2 Warp, while some others may not know about the first OS/2-OEM distribution called eComStation. Now a new company called Arca Noae, not happy with the results of this last distribution, has signed an agreement with IBM to create a new OS/2 version. They announced a new OS, codenamed "Blue Lion," at Warpstock 2015 this last October; this will be based on OS/2 Warp 4.52 and the SMP kernel. The OS/2 community has taken this news with positivism and the OS2World community is now requesting everybody that has developed for OS/2 on the past to open source their source code to collaborate.


    Nightfox

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Saturday, May 07, 2016 20:36:00
    Nightfox wrote to All <=-

    I saw this article the other day:
    http://bit.ly/1TN8dmk
    An anonymous reader writes:
    We all know the ill-fated history of IBM's OS/2 Warp, while some others may not know about the first OS/2-OEM distribution called eComStation.
    Now a new company called Arca Noae, not happy with the results of this last distribution, has signed an agreement with IBM to create a new
    OS/2 version. They announced a new OS, codenamed "Blue Lion," at
    Warpstock 2015 this last October; this will be based on OS/2 Warp 4.52
    and the SMP kernel. The OS/2 community has taken this news with
    positivism and the OS2World community is now requesting everybody that
    has developed for OS/2 on the past to open source their source code to collaborate.

    If this is true, it could be interesting. I have a lot of fond memories of OS/2 Warp, especially when it comes to BBSing. :)


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  • From Argelian@VERT/DMINE to Nightfox on Saturday, May 07, 2016 22:50:00
    -=[ On 05-06-16 22:04, Nightfox wrote to All below: ]=-
    -=[ Re: Return of OS/2 Warp set for 2016 ]=-

    Hi Nightfox!

    I saw this article the other day:
    http://bit.ly/1TN8dmk
    An anonymous reader writes:
    We all know the ill-fated history of IBM's OS/2 Warp, while some others may not know about the first OS/2-OEM distribution called eComStation.
    Now a new company called Arca Noae, not happy with the results of this last distribution, has signed an agreement with IBM to create a new
    OS/2 version. They announced a new OS, codenamed "Blue Lion," at
    Warpstock 2015 this last October; this will be based on OS/2 Warp 4.52
    and the SMP kernel. The OS/2 community has taken this news with
    positivism and the OS2World community is now requesting everybody that
    has developed for OS/2 on the past to open source their source code to collaborate.
    I just might start doing this offline mail think via OS/2 again to bring back memories :)

    Or I just might run an OS/2 BBS again :) I just wish I had kept all those files from my BBS I ran... doubt you could find it but I was the SysOp of Rusty Bedsprings and Babylon 5 BBS same one, just renamed it.

    Cheers,

    Bryan
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