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Re: Applications list plus a couple of questions...
At 07:25 AM 6/14/96 GMT, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
>I was so taken by executor that I have just ordered a copy for
>my home system :)
Good!
>I've just installed Word 5.1 in my evaluation copy (E-DOS)
>here at work, and it seems to work very well, so I know I bought well.
Did you actually succeed in running the Word *Installer* ?
If so, that should be put on the compat. list
>However the target platform I am running on at home will be linux.
Again, good!
>I tried the Linux X version but it appears to be much slower than the DOS
>one - I have 52Mb of RAM under Linux, but only 256kb of cache.
That's because under Dos, Executor has direct access to the screen, instead
of have=ing to use X calls. (I believe ARDI is planning on support for
X extensions that allow direct access.
>Will upgrading the cache improve performance much with E-linux?
>Also, will running Executor in mono speed it up as well?
>How do I set it to mono?
To get b/w, use 'executor -bpp 1' (do 'executor -help for a list of
all command line options). However, you will probably see more
of a speed increase by using executor-svga.
>The way I use it is to display the pseudo-mac on my SPARC X-console,
>this seems to work well - and there seems to be no performance difference
>using it either on the Linux X console or on the SPARC via X protocol.
>I don't wish to run X servers on Linux as it is meant to be a file
>server, not a workstation...
That's an interesting config - E/L actually competing with MAE on
a Sun!
>When I displayed executor on a PC X server (MSDOS), however, performance
>dropped quite a bit. Why would this be?
The PC-X server was probably not written as well as it should be - but
why not run Executor/Dos?
>of course I did not bother to try spawning multiple sessions, because
>linux won't handle it, but I would like to speed up video performance.
>What is the best way to do this?
What do you mean by that? Linux has no trouble running multiple
instances of E/L _on_the_same_machine_.
>Finally, is there a list of applications known to run on executor?
>(yes I know Word 5 does)
Check out ftp.ardi.com/pub/AppNotes
>I am *not* interested in games, but useful software, and something like
>Photoshop would be nice ;)
NIHimage runs, and I believe PageMaker mostly works, as does QuarkXPress.
>What about Excel or Powerpoint?
Excel 4 runs, I think PowerPoint has problems.
Ian
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