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Re: Executor usefulness?



In article <49hrhc$vm@leepai.cs.purdue.edu>, chenhh@cs.purdue.edu (Howii) wrote:

>Does anybody else question the usefulness of Executor?  I like
>macintoshes but have a PC and have used Executor, but I balk at
>buying it because I never actually use a macintosh for any of my
>important tasks these days.
[snip]
>Is there a major flaw in my line of reasoning?

For users of Linix, it opens up a whole range of software that might
not otherwise be available without booting into Windows, such as 
productivity applications from Microsoft.  WINE, the Linix Windows 
emulator, is not yet up to the task, and Linix doesn't yet have the 
installed base to attract a lot of the large mainstream developers.  
The same can be said for NeXTStep.  But you do have a good point that 
for DOS/Windows/Win95 users, most things you might want to use are 
available natively, so for those users, Executor might be more useful 
for a few niche application areas, such as games or graphics/DTP, 
where the Mac still has a foothold.

-- 
Scott Atwood
atwood@cs.stanford.edu


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