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Re: Why won't Australia cover Executor?



>>>>> "Michelle" == Michelle Pankowski <d9060469@helios.usq.edu.au> writes:
In article <Pine.HPP.3.91.960614003317.6349A-100000@helios.usq.edu.au> Michelle Pankowski <d9060469@helios.usq.edu.au> writes:


    Michelle> A friend of mine wrote to The Australian (our county's
    Michelle> premier newspaper) and mentioned Executor.  The
    Michelle> Australian has major coverage of Unix, Mac and PC
    Michelle> issues, software and hardware every Tuesday.  The
    Michelle> Tuesday edition sells-out within hours of hitting the
    Michelle> news stands.  Now four weeks later, they still haven't
    Michelle> mentioned Executor. You would think that it should rate
    Michelle> a mention even if only for the fact that it encompasses
    Michelle> all of the platforms that the paper serves.  I know that
    Michelle> anyone I show Executor to is impressed and surprised
    Michelle> because they didn't know it existed.

They don't know that it exists in the states, either.  Now that we're
well into our beta period that will start to change.

Possibilities for no mention include:

	They don't believe you -- there are many emulator hoaxes out there
	and no other emulators that run as quickly as Executor does

	They might remember an old version of Executor -- Executor/DOS was
	initially black and white only and ran far fewer pieces of software

	They might know about Executor 2 but dislike it because of its
	limitations -- Executor 2 is tricky.  It runs enough stuff to be
	real useful to some people, marginally useful to others, an
	amusement to still more and largely useless to the rest.  Sometimes
	people in the latter categories decide that if Executor isn't useful
	to them that it must be useless for everyone.  Aargh!

    Michelle> Does anyone else from Australia want to write/email the
    Michelle> editor of The Australian to give Executor some well
    Michelle> earned publicity?  Come on people, it would only take
    Michelle> five minutes of your time, but would enlighten some of
    Michelle> the luddites who think that only one OS and program
    Michelle> architecture should grace a PC.

We only made 300 beta1 CD-ROMs, so we have to limit how many we can
send out to periodicals, but if you think it would help, let me know
their address and we can send them a beta1 CD-ROM to look at.

    Michelle> PS: good luck Ardi;-) Kick arse!

Thanks.  MacHack '96 is sort of our first debut.  It will be
interesting to see how we're received.

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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