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Post #92,891 by jake123 3/29/03 5:52:23 PM Reply	You forgot one OS/2, or eComStation (same thing, different vendor). For most of what nightowl does, it can provide software; mozilla for web surfing, pmmail for mail, lotus smartsuite for word processor/spreadsheet etc. There are very good tools available for monitoring the system if you find you're having a problem, and it runs well on older hardware. It has good system basics (kernel, drivers), but is not so good on supporting everything-under-the-sun like Windows does; for example, you have to shop carefully for a printer, make sure you buy a real modem and not a winmodem, usb device support is spotty (we're at the point now that most cameras will work, but most scanners won't yet), etc. --\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \r\n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \r\n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #92,921 by orion 3/29/03 8:53:50 PM Reply	OS/2 eCS Well she has an external USR modem, that shouldn't be a problem. I think ATI still makes OS/2 drivers so her Radion card should work. [link\|http://www.ecomstation.com/where_purchase.phtml\|http://www.ecomstati...re_purchase.phtml] It lists the US Seller as: [link\|http://www.ecomstation.biz/\|http://www.ecomstation.biz/] Which doesn't list the full eCS package. Just the $59 upgrade to 1.1 and the $140 application pack. Or is the $59 price the Core OS, and the upgrade from 1.0 just a suggestion? I am guessing it may be the later. So for $199 in software, you can upgrade to a new OS (Based on OS/2) and have a set of applications to run. It will run the old Quicken for Windows 3.1 software, and then you could just use the OS/2 Native programs like PMMail, Mozilla, etc for the rest. There is that ODIN project that is supposed to run 32 bit Windows programs, but I never tried it out to be honest. [link\|http://odin.netlabs.org/\|http://odin.netlabs.org/] Opera for OS/2 was apparently writting using it. So you could keep your browser the same: [link\|http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?step=2&opsys=OS%2F2&platform=OS%2F2\|http://www.opera.com...2&platform=OS%2F2] "Bill gates cannot guarantee Windows, so how are you going to guarantee my safety?" -John Crichton to the Emperor of the Scarrans on [link\|http://www.farscape.com\|FarScape]
Post #92,941 by jake123 3/29/03 10:34:38 PM Reply	Pricing List prices are 199$USD for the full version; the 59 bucks is upgrade from 1.0. App Pack is 140$USD. Total price for both is 339$USD. That's less than MS Office lists for. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------

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