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IMPORTANT: We goofed and sent out 1.2.1 with 1.2.2 labels
Dear Folks,
If you recently received a copy of 1.2.2 from us you should check the
info panel and see if it claims to be 1.2.2 or 1.2.1. About two
dozen (we think) copies of 1.2.1 with 1.2.2 labels were shipped to
people who should have received 1.2.2.
About a hundred other copies were detected before being dropped in
the mail. We're remaking the disks today and hope to have them in
the mail by Tuesday.
The good news is that we're in the process of changing our delivery
system. With the upcoming release of 1.3, which will support Intel
processors, we'll be leaving complete copies of Executor on the
various NeXT related anonymous FTP sites and allow people with
legitimate authentication codes to use those copies without having to
get a copy directly from us. People without authentication codes
will be able to test drive Executor for a few minutes, at a time.
Once this is in place we'll keep two copies out there at all times;
the latest "official" release and the latest "experimental" release
so that if we have a bug-fix that fixes *your* bug, we can roll it
into an experimental release and let everyone who's curious try it.
If you don't have access to the net, we'll continue to send you
copies of the official releases on floppy disk.
Ever since February 10th, it's been very hectic over here, because we
knew that at NeXTWORLD Expo we'd have to show Executor running under
NeXTSTEP/Intel. We've succeeded. 1.3 isn't ready for distribution
yet, but it *does* run under NeXTSTEP/Intel. In addition, we should
have a primitive copy running under _DOS_ within a month. We're
looking for a publisher for our DOS product and one of the
prerequisites will be that we get a sufficient advance to allow us to
buff and polish Executor on all platforms before we release the DOS
version. Everyone wins.
The implementation of color took a back seat to support for the
80x86, but it won't be taking a back seat to the DOS effort. DOS and
color will be worked on concurrently. We hope to release our DOS
version by September 1, and have Executor 2.0 (with color support) in
beta sometime around then.
If you received a copy of 1.2.1 labeled as 1.2.2 and you don't
already have a copy of 1.2.2, please send me some e-mail. We're
looking at logs and trying to figure out exactly who got the bad
copies, but extra e-mail won't hurt.
See you at NeXTWORLD Expo.
--Cliff