2012 15:23:25 -0400   
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   From: rwkleinDESPAM@DESPAMmensys.nl   
      
   Here is a news update from Mensys regarding eComStation. As I have written in   
   the previous email about Warpstock Europe 2012. This will not happen. But we   
   will have a Warpstock Europe 2013 next year in May in Haarlem again!   
   Mensys moved to a new office building last year. That move has taken up way   
   more time then we had planned :-)     
      
   Things however have not been grinding to a hold. Our developers continue to   
   work on improving drivers.   
   There is going to a new version of eCS 2.2 coming. But we first want todo a   
   public beta and then a release candidate before we release this version as 2.2   
   final.   
   The modifications to the base OS are very big!     
      
   The biggest modification is that ACPI will be switched on by default when eCS   
   2.2 loads from CD. The ACPI drivers is crucial to make eCS run on   
   modern hardware. The test results over the last couple of months have been   
   extremely good. Some people needed to use a lot of command line switches   
   to get ACPI work properly in the past. The ACPI driver now works on just about   
   any computer without any user action required.   
   SMP support is activated automaticly if the system suppports it. We have the so   
   called HLT instruction back in the SMP kernel so your CPU will remain   
   cool. This works on AMD and Intel systems. If your system is running on low CPU   
   usage extra CPU cores are switched off and switched back on in a blink of an   
   eye when needed!   
   A lot of drivers have also been updated for proper SMP an suspend/resume   
   support. Like the IBMKBD.SYS, AMOUSE.SYS, DOSCALL1.DLL, TCPIP32.DLL and   
   DANIS506.ADD.     
      
   While not *yet* released into the public for further testing a heavily updated   
   Panorama driver is being tested right now that will make slow   
   video a thing of the past. A lot of modern systems the so called MTRR registers   
   where being setup incorrectly. Resulting on some systems   
   is extremely slow video. We now have a Panorama driver that also supports PAT   
   in case Panorama can not setup correctly the MTRR registers.   
   Also     
      
   Also an heavily updated USB will be included as we move away from the IBM USB   
   based stack.   
   Basicly I'm expecting to see almost no USB keyboard or mouse fail on eCS   
   anymore with this new USB drivers.   
   Also a lot of problems should go away with slow transfers to USB attached   
   storage.     
      
   Also for the people that have a hang or trap when SCREEN01.SYS loads. This new   
   eCS version will fix that!     
      
   Expected release by the latest second week of November. To access this beta you   
   will need an active software subscription.     
      
      
   Regards,     
      
   Roderick Klein   
   Mensys   
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