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echo: bbs_carnival
to: MARK HOFMANN
from: SEAN DENNIS
date: 2016-02-27 10:14:00
subject: Re: WWIV 5.0 Release + Ne

-=> Mark Hofmann wrote to Robert Wolfe <=-

 MH> So how did the people updating eCS get the OS?  That is the part I'm
 MH> not clear on.  I do really like what the people updating eCS has done..
 MH>  OS/2 really lacked networking ability for along time.  The latest eCS
 MH> really helps in that area.

Serenity Systems licensed much of the OS from IBM.  Blue Lion, from what I
understand, paid a lot of money to get access to the video system and
kernel, which Microsoft has a lot of code in and doesn't like to share it.

--Sean
 
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