single w children wrote:
>>The difference between eCS 1.0 and 
>>1.1 is is most optical and
>>- better installer
>>- more and newer fixpacks and drivers integrated
> 
>  
> Thanks for the good information. However, be it duly noted that a
better installer is in no way an enticement to upgrade.  I haven't
installed OS/2 in about six years, so eCS needs to have a more valid reason
to upgrade than "it installs easier"
> 
> There are reasons for some to upgrade, but not everyone who drops
fifty or a hundred bucks is going to find anything there that is of any
value. Most folks upgrade when there is a need, not just when there is
something to upgrade to. 
> 
> Me? I am still waiting/hoping to see and ad, or read a review of eCS
somewhere outside of the OS/2 niche world, as a indicator that SS is going
to keep moving this thing forward. 
> 
> Thanks for the tips,

Hm, The comparsion was for eCS 1.0 to eCS 1.1. When we will compare 
WARP 4.0 to eCS 1.1 we get a much longer list:

0. boot for install directly from CD, no diskettes needed
1. easy installer (again) This is a key as you needs a new install 
because even when you gets FP16 (not public available!) you are 
technically 5 years behind eCS 1.1. see the following (but still 
incomplete) list.
2. boot for maintenance from CD. Saves you a maintenance partiton on HD
3. full flagged USB support on board
4. APM is working now
5. more and more current drivers on board (some of them not publically 
available at all
6. supports really BIG disks
7. supports boot from the whole disk, not only the very first 1024 zylider
8. is compatible with M$ crap as the 0F partition doesn disturb 
anything anymore
9. has danis506.add as default disk driver
10. has SDD as default graphic driver (install ends up with 800x600
     instead VGA - can be extendened to any resolution after install
     install is complete
11. registered SIO.SYS is default, IBM com.sys can be selected
     before the copy phase starts
12. extended preboot menue - makes it mostenly superflous to build
     installation diskettes, even as this optionS are available
13. supports any known currently available mainboard and device
     without manually modifying installation diskettes prior
     install.
14. At any point during all install phases:
     commandline window available to hack around
15. maintenance console optionally available prior each boot
     for next installation phase. Gives the chance to modify
     anything currently on install drive without extra boot
     maekes installation easy even with exotic hardware
16. installation is done in about 15 minutes on a P100!
17. dynamic integration of drivers during base install
     without building installation diskettes

Now from install to run:
1. new designed GUI
2. new BootManager. Possibility to install on any place on disk, not 
only inside the old 1024 zylinder limit
3. LVM instead of old FDISK
    reordering of multiple disks is much easier because
    drive letters are not bound to 1. primary 1 disk, first primary
    2. disk,..... driver letters are free associable! So your system
    may use the drives f,h,kg - in that order, independant of
    the physical order of the disks and the partitons on them
    Volumes instead of partitons. Wheras a volume is one or
    multe ple partitons on one or multiple logical or physical drives
4. JFS (Journalling File System) allows volume sizes of up to
    2 TB (tera bytes). chkdsk on them is much quicker (seconds
    or in worst case minutes instead of hours or days in case of
    crash or power failture even on real big volumes
5. full flagged 32 bit tcp/ip (V4.32).
6. internet dialup with modem/ISDN/cable/DSL on CD #2 optionally
    installable
7. NFS included
8. eCSMT makes maintenance (install/replace of new drivers, fixes
    and fixpacks) really easy
9. download of newer drivers, fixes and fixpacks free
    eCS comes with MCP fixpack 3 integrated
10. many tools and utilities now integrated into the base system
11. Much more tools and utilities on CD #2 for optional install
12. optionally extendable for use of up to 64 processors
     on the mainboard (separate costs!)
13. migration tool that makes migration of the desktop of
     WARP4, eCS 1.0, MCP to eCS 1.1 easy to use. Even as
     this tool is without warranty and not maintenanced it
     was heavely tested and many usenet users says that
     it does what it promises.
As sayed this list is still incomplete.

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