The week is dedicated to collection of info about compatible/non-compatible POS printers.

Our database contains 313 records only..

http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php

Major part of the models are not manufactured anymore.

Post new reports using the web-form -- http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php

What is the driver? Is it Postscript printer?

Do you use CUPS driver? Do the instructions help you? -- http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/HowTo>

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News from http://class='extlink'netlabs.org:
23. April - 29. April
ACPI Subsystem for eComStation
One new ticket and a few closed
See: http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline

Dynamic Windows Library
Lots of updates and fixes again
See: http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/dwindows/timeline

Java port for eCS (OS/2)
Nice set of updates
See: http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/java/timeline

kBuild
Assembler fix
See: svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline

kLIBC
Just a diff for documentation updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline

Lucide
kLIBC 0.6.5 update and some reorg
See: svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline

NEPMD
Various updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/nepmd/timeline

Odin32
kLIBC 0.6.5 update
See: svn.netlabs.org/odin32/timeline

Qt Applications for OS/2
Two applications updated and some wiki work
See: svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/timeline

Qt Version 4 for OS/2
Lockup fixed
See: svn.netlabs.org/qt4/timeline

Samba for eCS (OS/2)
Mix of updates, including kLIBC 0.6.5 and it is now high-mem aware.
See: svn.netlabs.org/samba/timeline

USB
One update
See: svn.netlabs.org/usb/timeline

16. April - 22. April
ACPI Subsystem for eComStation
Known problems updated and one ticket closed
See: svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline

DataSeeker
Wiki update
See: svn.netlabs.org/dataseeker/timeline

Dynamic Windows Library
Various fixes and additions
See: svn.netlabs.org/dwindows/timeline

Java port for eCS (OS/2)
Two tickets fixed
See: svn.netlabs.org/java/timeline

Lucide
Ticket raised
See: svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline

NEPMD
Bunch of fixes, updates and additions
See: svn.netlabs.org/nepmd/timeline

Odin32
Fixes and updates, SEH working now
See: svn.netlabs.org/odin32/timeline

Qt Applications for OS/2
Three new applications added and some updated
See: svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/timeline

USB
One ticket closed and more feedback information given to improve that process
See: svn.netlabs.org/usb/timeline

Netlabs.org relies on your support as well. We hire developers to have better progress on projects, for instance. For sure this costs money so any sponsoring is very welcome! You can support netlabs.org via netlabs.org sponsoring units:
www.mensys.net/NETLABS/

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E1000E
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Recompiled due to MultiMac project restructuring

Hardware is now checked at initialization time so the driver will not load if valid harware is not present.

New more efficient ring buffer allocation routines.

Added logging functionality

Added tracing functionality.

Added Promiscuous mode capability.

Now a Warpin package.

NVETH
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Recompiled due to MultiMac project restructuring

Hardware is now checked at initialization time so the driver will not load if valid harware is not present.

New more efficient ring buffer allocation routines.

Added logging functionality

Added tracing functionality.

Now a Warpin package.

R8169
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Recompiled due to MultiMac project restructuring

Hardware is now checked at initialization time so the driver will not load if valid harware is not present.

New more efficient ring buffer allocation routines.

Added logging functionality

Added tracing functionality.

Added Promiscuous mode capability.

Updated to the current Linux source level which adds support for 9 new hardware configurations.

Now a Warpin package.

David Azarewicz
http://class='extlink'http://www.88watts.net>

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Since my last EDM/2 news update (07 March 2012) there had been some additional changes:

 1) Re-posted Dev articles and material:

 This authors allowed to re-post their OS/2 material on the EDM/2 Wiki under the Creative Commons license Attribution-Share Alike 3.0, which allow derivative work.

 - Mike Greene

OS/2 Device Drivers for Dummies (May 2007)

- Stefan Zollnerâ€Ä;

How to do port I/O (IN/OUT) from OS/2 (1997)

Fast (500 kHz) analog-to-digital conversion in OS/2 using the CIO-DAS16/M1 (1997)

Accessing the CIO-DAC02 Digital-to-Analog converter from Computerboards, Inc. (1997)

Digital Input/Output in OS/2 (1997)

32-bit port I/O using the TESTCFG.SYS device driver (1997)

Object-oriented programming examples for the GPIB (IEEE-488) bus (1997)

- Rony G. Flatscher

Extending the Workplace Shell with Object REXX, (presentation) (May 24-26, 2000.)

2) Republishing Permission

 The following authors allowed his classic EDM/2 articles to be re-posted on the wiki under the Creative Commons license to allow derivative work.

- Marc van Woerkom

- Ivan Skytte Jørgensen

- Jason Koeninger

3) Links

I also took the opportunity to link to other OS/2 development related material on the web. On this case I found this articles and link to them on the wiki.

Gabrielle Gagnon - "Exploring IBM’s SOM at PC Mag"

Part 1 (10 Oct 1995)

Part 2 (7 Nov 1995)

Part 3 (9 Jan 1996)

4) Extra updates

There had been some small additions to:

- The Config.sys Documentation Project/SET Statements

- The OS/2 API Project

I would like to thank all the article authors that allowed this to happen.

There is more work to do on the Wiki, more information is needed to be included in the Tools category and Iâ€Öm looking forward for more OS/2 development articles that can be created, linked or re-posted on EDM/2.

Any help is welcome, please contact me.

Visit the EDM/2 wiki at: http://www.edm2.com

Martin Iturbide

OS2World.com News Master

Links:

• http://www.edm2.com
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With all the articles talking about the 25th birthday of OS/2 posted two weeks ago I found this one from David Strom. (Windows 8: The OS/2 of Today - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/windows_8s_destiny_to_become_the_os2_of_today.php) />
On this article he said he wrote an OS/2 book that never got finished or released. So I contacted the author and requested his permission to release the book under a license that allows derivative works.

David Strom released his 1988 book "Every Manager’s Guide to OS2" under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license.

This 200 page book belongs OS/2 1.x era and it is in draft state. It has revision remarks and missing screenshots. I had transformed it to docx, odt and pdf format and it is now available for download at hobbes.

Link: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php

I would like to thank David Strom for making it possible.

Links:

• http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php
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This is the latest edition of the bi-weekly http://class='extlink'netlabs.org newsletter. The newsletter can be read on the web at the following URL:
http://class='extlink'http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php

News from http://class='extlink'netlabs.org:
9. April - 15. April
ACPI Subsystem for eComStation
Few tickets closed and one solved and Known Problems updated
See: http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline

Dynamic Windows Library
Two fixes and a few updates
See: http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/dwindows/timeline

eCUPS
Mix of updates
See: http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/timeline

Java port for eCS (OS/2)
One ticket closed and a new one raised
See: svn.netlabs.org/java/timeline

kBuild
New ticket raised and one closed
See: svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline

kLIBC
Release 0.6.5 tagged!
See: svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline

NEPMD
One fix, some addition and an update
See: svn.netlabs.org/nepmd/timeline

Odin32
Multiple fixes
See: svn.netlabs.org/odin32/timeline

Qt Applications for OS/2
Various applications updated
See: svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/timeline

Samba for eCS (OS/2)
Update in GUI tools
See: svn.netlabs.org/samba/timeline

2. April - 8. April
ACPI Subsystem for eComStation
Testing Guide updates, tickets cleanup and many fixes.
See: svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline

Dynamic Windows Library
Mix of additions and fixes
See: svn.netlabs.org/dwindows/timeline

Java port for eCS (OS/2)
COM port issue solved
See: svn.netlabs.org/java/timeline

Lucide
New ticket raised about text items
See: svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline

NEPMD
Good progress
See: svn.netlabs.org/nepmd/timeline

Odin32
Lot of things going on. Nice new logo!
See: svn.netlabs.org/odin32/timeline

Qt Applications for OS/2
Many applications got updated
See: svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/timeline

Samba for eCS (OS/2)
Streamlining build process and evfsgui 2.1.3 is added
See: svn.netlabs.org/samba/timeline

Unix Ports and more
Poppler update
See: svn.netlabs.org/ports/timeline

USB
Pile of updates and fixes and new ticket raised
See: svn.netlabs.org/usb/timeline

Netlabs.org relies on your support as well. We hire developers to have better progress on projects, for instance. For sure this costs money so any sponsoring is very welcome! You can support netlabs.org via netlabs.org sponsoring units:
www.mensys.net/NETLABS/

Thanks for your support!

We can be reached at: news@netlabs.org
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The users have posted the reports about the latest motherboards, check the listings!

This week is dedicated to collection of info about compatible/non-compatible motherboards. Our database contains 279 records only..

http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php

Major part of the models are not manufactured anymore.

Post new reports using the web-form -- http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php

Does the motherboard use UEFI interface?

Does ACPI driver work with the motherboard?

What can you find on eComStation.RU site?

* All news related to eComStation and IBM OS/2 Warp since 2001. Every message (may have) has comments so it works like local mini-forum.

* All reviews and articles about eCS and apps since 2001.

* Announcements of software updates - in separate APeCS database

* Many pages are related to the history of eComStation and IBM OS/2 Warp.

* Here is additional forum http://forum.ecomstation.ru

* Polls to collect the statistics -- http://ecomstation.ru/poll.php

* Web-site for developers -- DevCon -- http://ecomstation.ru/developer

* Frequently asked questions and answers -- http://www2.ecomstation.ru/ecsfaq

We add additional information to the sites every hour. You can’t stop us!

eComStation.RU - is the second site related to eComStation/OS/2 Warp (by qty of visitors).

eComStation.RU - is the largest storage of knowledge about eComStation and OS/2.

What are the plans for 2012? The external view is changing,

30 sub-pages should be created.

We are ready share our success.

You can publish reviews/articles on the site.

Sponsor units.

If you want support the site - insert a coin into your floppy drive

(look at the top left corner of ecomstation.ru site).

<big>Esther Schindler’s memories of OS/2 on the occasion of OS/2’s 25th birthday:  
http://class='moz-txt-link-freetext'; https://plus.google.com/106875990476951662693/posts/9aDbieL2ncH</big>>

  
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"ACPI (short for "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface") is a standard that defines power and configuration management interfaces between an operating system and Hardware. It is meant to supersede the older APM standard (for power management) and provide a generic interface for recognition and configuration of hardware devices."

There is a new release of ACPI posted on the eCS BetaZone. according to the readme this version of ACPI.PSD and related files is a beta version and still under heavy development. Please READ the README.TXT fle. Available to those with access (via Software Subscription Services) to the eComStation BetaZone:
( via logging in at http://class='extlink'http://www.mensys.nl/indexuk.html )

Please read the testing Guide: http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/wiki/TestingGuide

Post bug-reports to the tracker on http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi

/>Changes in 3.20.01:
-------------------

Updated the ACPICA to 5.0 version 20120215.

Fixed problem with Award ACPI and possibly other similar vendors.

OS/2 API Research book, written in Russian (cyrillic), is now available from Hobbes:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-browse.php

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php

 This is the complete reference and tutorial for Control Program and Presentation Manager programming. Alongside with CP/PM API calls, this book describes modern API calls (eToolkit, LANGE, libKVA) and low-level DDK Helper functions. Based on that, it shows possible roadmap of OS/2 development towards functional programming and mikrokernel architecture.

 What’s new in the book: DevTools and Rexx chapters has been completely re-written, lots of minor changes in the book... all after reading SICP - a book about Lisp programming language.

This is the latest edition of the bi-weekly http://class='extlink'netlabs.org newsletter. The newsletter can be read on the web at the following URL:
http://class='extlink'http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php

News from http://class='extlink'netlabs.org:
26. March - 1. April
ACPI Subsystem for eComStation
Mix of new tickets and quite some fixes as well as Known Problems updates
See: http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline

Dynamic Windows Library
Quite a lot of updates and some fixes
See: http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/dwindows/timeline

Java port for eCS (OS/2)
Two tickets closed due to no feedback and two new tickets raised
See: http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/java/timeline

NEPMD
A few fixes
See: svn.netlabs.org/nepmd/timeline

Odin32
Some fixes
See: svn.netlabs.org/odin32/timeline

Qt Applications for OS/2
Various applications updated
See: svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/timeline

Qt Version 4 for OS/2
New ticket raised
See: svn.netlabs.org/qt4/timeline

RPM and YUM
Wiki updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/rpm/timeline

Unix Ports and more
Wiki update about feedback
See: svn.netlabs.org/ports/timeline

USB
Some updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/usb/timeline

19. March - 25. March
ACPI Subsystem for eComStation
Wiki updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline

Dynamic Windows Library
Work on windows-config
See: svn.netlabs.org/dwindows/timeline

FM/2
New ticket created
See: svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline

Java port for eCS (OS/2)
New GA (build 24) released, some sponsoring updates as well as some new tickets
See: svn.netlabs.org/java/timeline

kBuild
Some dtrace updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline

kLIBC
Loads of updates and fixes
See: svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline

Lucide
A few tickets closed and some updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline

Odin32
Odin 0.8.4 released and some updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/odin32/timeline

Qt Applications for OS/2
Quite a lot of updates and some new applications added
See: svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/timeline

Qt Version 4 for OS/2
One update on a ticket
See: svn.netlabs.org/qt4/timeline

RPM and YUM
One fix and two updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/rpm/timeline

Unix Ports and more
Set of updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/ports/timeline

USB
Some updates and two new tickets raised
See: svn.netlabs.org/usb/timeline

Netlabs.org relies on your support as well. We hire developers to have better progress on projects, for instance. For sure this costs money so any sponsoring is very welcome! You can support netlabs.org via netlabs.org sponsoring units:
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Thanks for your support!

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netlabs.org team

"25 Years of IBMâ€Ös OS/2: The Strange Days and Surprising Afterlife of a Legendary Operating System

Big Blue’s next-generation operating system was supposed to change everything. It didn’t. But it’s also never quite gone away.
By Harry McCracken"

http://class='moz-txt-link-freetext'; http://techland.time.com/2012/04/02/25-years-of-ibms-os2-the-birth-death-
and-afterlife-of-a-legendary-operating-system/