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Dear Folks,
Work on our synthetic CPU (the thing that will allow us to release
Executor on non-68K machines: NeXTSTEP/Intel, SPARC/X-windows, DOS,
etc.) is *ahead* of schedule. Don't worry, there's still plenty of
time for it to slip, *but* I'm temporarily going to be very busy
restructuring some of Executor's internals so that it will interface
nicely to the synthetic CPU.
As such, I implore you to use the ARDI aliases as much as possible:
bugs@ardi.com
orders@ardi.com
suggestions@ardi.com
and
questions@ardi.com for anything that doesn't fit into the above
categories.
I have always been a little spotty w.r.t. answering e-mail addressed
to ctm@ardi.com, and during the next week, I'll be even more
negligent than normal.
We have a new person working for us, Mark Iuzzolino (I you' zo lean
oh), he represents something that ARDI has never had in the past, a
sales department. However, like everyone else, Mark is also computer
literate and in fact, he'd be in our programming department were cash
a little looser in the NeXT arena. That makes the current ARDI
roster:
Mat Hostetter -- Synthetic CPU and DOS porting
Sam Jones -- Tech. Support
Tito Suarez -- Bug report handling
Mark Iuzzolino -- Sales
Cliff Matthews -- Everything else (mostly programming
these days)
As you can see, that is a pretty lean lineup; temporarily gone are
the days when we had the same number of people, but all were
programmers (Bill Goldman, Mike Bushnell, Tim Casey and Stefan
Chakerian). However, our current line up is more responsive to
customers needs than was our old roster, *and* we'll be hiring more
programmers as soon as we either get financing (cross your fingers)
or release a version of Executor on a platform with a large installed
base of potential customers.
As we've said before, we love NeXT machines and our NeXT customers;
don't let our DOS/Windows endeavors make you nervous; we'll still be
doing all our non-UI development under NeXTSTEP. The additional
revenue that we'll get from other markets will allow us to get all
apps working, and in Color, quicker than we'd be able to do with our
revenues coming solely from the NeXT market. In addition, we have
potential investors who appear to just be waiting to see a non-68K
based version of Executor before writing us a check.
We're moving forward and very quickly at that.
BTW, if you can receive 2Mb NeXTmail, and you are a currently
licensed Executor 1.2.1 owner, you should let samjones@ardi.com know
that you'd like to receive 1.2.2 via NeXTmail. We'll still be
grinding out floppies for a few more days, so until we have them all
made and dropped off in the mail, we'll still offer the chance to get
the update by e-mail.
--Cliff