Quoting uvcceet :

> Hi Rich, I'm in trouble  here :-) but I do want to point out that I
> tried ecomstation as well, being one of the first buyers, nt because I
> needed it, but  because I thought I owed it to the company to invest
> in  my favorite OS, and their efforts. I got v1.0, and was not at all
> impressed, and will just leave it at that 

I didn't like eCS 1.0 so much, but I got it to work.  1.1 has a rewritten
installer which I found to be a VAST improvement.  I can't emphasize that
enough.  :-)  I've heard that 1.2R is even better, but I've not had the time to
play with my copy yet so it's still only hearsay as far as I'm concerned.

> I had a rock solid, reliable Warp4 install doing all that I needed,
> until I needed CAD and a few other things eCS cannot offer, so I had
> to bail. I wish there had been a reliable virtual PC program at the
> time. Might have made all the difference.... 

I use a mix of Visio 4 Pro, an old Drafix Windows CAD, and MicroCAD 4.0 for DOS
when I diagram floor plans and such, but I don't do any "serious work" with
them.  Oh, and A&L Draw, too.  And StarOffice 5.1a still.

> If you have one of those wonderful OS/2 stations clocking along
> nicely, I hope you  have used DFSEE to clone it, and insure that you
> will never have to reinstall it, ever.

While I do have a licensed copy of DFSEE, I've not used it much, and I actually
back up and restore my stuff in two ways:

(1) DriveImage 2.0 images on a central fileserver for boot partitions.
(2) Quick-n-dirty ZIP backups to another fileserver for everything else.

> The ecs installer is said to be nice, but I don't install it more than
> once, so it has no intrinsic value, from this perspective.

I never reinstall, either.  That's what disk imaging is for.  :-)

> However, I have also been unable to make the networking work with my
> comcast setup, which leaves me where I was two years ago, so I think
> my experiment may have been in vain. It was really cool seeing all
> that old stuff up and working, and it brought back a lot of nostalgia,
> and good times. :-)

I use Comcast here, though I interface with the ISP through a Linux firewall (my
OS/2 and Windows systems never talk to the ISP directly).

What issues are you running into?

> Still, its nice to see that the passion, no matter how misdirected or
> implemented, still exists for a terrific operating system.

Yes, and as long as that passion results in things like continued ports of
Firefox and other constructive endeavors, I'm all for it continuing.  ;-)

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 -Rich Steiner >>>---> http://www.visi.com/~rsteiner
>>>---> Mableton, GA USA
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                    The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.



 
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