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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