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Re: Executor/DOS Pre-Beta
On Tue, 3 Aug 1993, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
> We just sent floppies of Executor/DOS Pre-Beta to 17 important
> computer publication editors. We've extended an offer to send
> floppies to another 700 editors. Mat has returned to MIT last week
> (which was always the plan). We still have a little functionality to
> add to Executor/DOS as well as working on the manual rewrite and bug
> fixing. All this is going on while we try to finish up
> Executor/NEXTSTEP 1.3.
I downloaded the Executor/DOS Pre-Beta and tried it out last night. Wow!!!
This thing is incredible. I was quite impressed when I tried Executor or
my NeXTstation, but I was really impressed with it on DOS. I tried it on
three different machines, a 386dx33 with 4MB RAM, a 486dx33 with 16MB and
a 486dx33 with 8MB. All of the machines had VGA monitors with standard
non-accelerated sVGA cards. The performance was really quite incredible.
I had expected a really slow environment because of the synthetic CPU, but
I was totally surprised at how well things ran. I pulled up the ol' Globe
and just watched in shock at how quickly it was spinning. I assume that
much of the speed is due to the emulated ROM actually being compiled for
the native (i.e. 386) CPU and just the application running synthetically.
My congratulations and total awe to Cliff and the rest of the gang. You
have done a terribly great job in my opinion!
galen
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