Presentations
ALL01 OS/2 and the Benefit of its Object-Oriented Approach
What is the idea behind object-oriented environments and where are the advantages over non-object-oriented systems? In the beginning of 1992 IBM introduced the Workplace Shell as a part of OS/2 2.0 representing the new standard user-interface for their PC-operating system. This presentation gives a brief overview about the object-oriented character and implementation of these new ideas in OS/2....
ALL02 Linux and BSD - A Comparison between the Basic Operating Systems
The philosopy of Unix systems strongly differs from typical PC destop environments like OS/2 and Windows. These are not evident for people migrating to this systems, even though during the last years, Linux tries to adapt Microsoft's way of user experience. The architecture of BSD systems is different from that. The presentation will discuss the structure and philosophy of BSD operating systems,...
ALL98 Virtualization Solutions for OS/2 as Host and Guest Operating System
With modern virtualization solutions like Innotek's/Sun's VirtualBox, VMWare, MS VirtualPC, etc. you can use different operating systems on one single PC, without the need to reboot if you want to use a special application. This presentation will show some pros and cons as well as some possibilities to use OS/2 or eCS as host and guest. The session will try to show one solution to virtualize the...
ALL99 The “Voyager-Desktop 2.0” — A solution to get the WPS on a modern system?
Many current and former OS/2 users still name the object-oriented Workplace Shell of OS/2 as the outstanding feature, even compared to all other modern operating systems on the market. This presentation will give a short overview of the work that Adrian Gschwend and others from netlabs.org have already done after the idea of replacing the WPS had come up first. It will show which parts of...
APP01 DFSee version 10.x — Functionality Overview and New Features
The presentation will give an overview of DFSee, with emphasis on newer features like the bootable USB stick, but also FAQ issues like large FAT32 removable disk usage ... More details to follow ...
APP02 TXscript — Advanced Scripting, as Used in DFSee 9.03 and Higher
TXscript is just one of the major new features in DFSee version 9 and 10, and used more and more now for recovery and other DFSee scripts. More details to follow ...
DEV01 Using XML Services for Web Application Development
In this session Christian Langanke shows in a sample how XML web services are accessed via SOAP in PHP, and how XSL templates are used to generate the XHTML output from XML. In both concerns XML is the key to a highly modular application design. As the concept of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) further requests to loosely couple the components of a distributed system, the sample shows how...
MME01 DOSBOX, ScummVM & Co. — Fun & Games with OS/2
This Presentation will give an interesting and astonishing overview of the undreamed-of possibilities of using OS/2 and eCS as a gaming plattform. The session will give an overview about the options OS/2 provides itself, i.e.,"native OS/2 games,"games with the OS/2 DOS emulation, andgames with the OS/2 Windows 3.1 emulation,and the numerous options given by modern emulators and...