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Seems to have been formed from ex-eComStation people (see https://www.arcanoae.com/about/ https://www.arcanoae.com/about/). I wonder if they have to start from
by ch_123 11y ago
Seems to have been formed from ex-eComStation people (see https://www.arcanoae.com/about/ https://www.arcanoae.com/about/). I wonder if they have to start from scratch with whatever enhancements were added to eCS, or if they are able to access the eCS source by some means.
- orionblastar 11y agoApparently IBM made some changes to OS/2 4.5.2 or whatever the last version was to add in support for modern hardware and that is what Serenity licensed as an OEM to make eComStation. It seems to be what Arcanae licensed as well as an OEM. I see competition as a good thing, you got two OEMs trying to offer a modern day OS/2, of course they are going to work to make their own version better than the other one. It is not uncommon for employees to leave one company to form another that competes with the former company. Usually they had a different vision than the managers had, and want to take OS/2 into a different direction than Serenity is currently doing. I hope they offer open source bounties for porting open source programs to OS/2 from Linux and Windows and other operating systems. I hope they do the same for drivers to get modern hardware support. OS/2 runs faster because it has a smaller Kernel than Windows 10 does and it was designed for earlier systems to use less system resources.