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Re: Executor usefulness?



Dave Hwang <dhwang@loc3.tandem.com> writes:

>Executor/Linux/DOS/NS is great, but ARDI probably thinks it's going to 
>be much more than that.

Last I checked, Apple had somewhere around 5-10% of the home
computer market.  That means 90+% of the home computer market
can't run Apple-compiled software, even if they'd like to.  With 
Executor, that little stumbling block disappears.

If only 1 in 1000 x86 machine owners decides the licensing fee
for Executor is preferable to buying a Mac, ARDI stands to make
bank.  (Apple as well, since they'll get an increased market for
their software...and it's not like I was going to buy a Mac
anytime soon anyway, so they oughtta be glad of Executor's
existence.)

Everybody wins, including Linux users who really dig the thought
of running binaries compiled for any platform...and it _will_
happen.

Jim
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        As of Jan.1,1996, the jh9572 above will be j-hill5.  Sorry. 
       "The Dark One wants them.  If the Dark One wants a thing, I 
         oppose it.  Can there be a simpler reason, or a better?"


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