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From: "Clifford T. Matthews" <iclone!ctm@cs.unm.edu>
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Hi Folks,
As you know, there hasn't been a new experimental version of
Executor/DOS or Executor/NEXTSTEP in a few weeks. Part of the reason
for that is due to the fact that we've found a few filesystem and
memory manager bugs/conflicts and we want to get all the ones that we
know of fixed before we release a new version. However, that
shouldn't have taken us this long.
What else has happened is we've had two separate disk drives fail,
and we've had a bunch of new equipment arrive, and I'm the person
that sets up new equipment. If that weren't enough, I was feeling a
little feverish and generically uncomfortable for a couple days, when
Sunday morning I wound up passing a kidney stone. This was not a fun
experience, and I've been mostly bed-ridden for most of the week up
until now. As far as I know, I'm better, but I haven't yet had my
follow-up appointment, so I don't know what to expect.
However, ARDI is not a one man show, and work has been proceeding
nicely on color, on our Finder replacement and on the Executor
brochures and press-kits. Unfortunately, we had to let our manual
editor go, so that is being held up for a little while now.
I can't guarantee when Executor/DOS 1.2d will get out, but I'm up to
working full-time days again and should soon be back to my normal
beyond-full-time days. As soon as 1.2d is out, we'll start hiring
testers to pound on this stuff around the clock, on a variety of
machines under a variety of operating systems. 2.0 still won't be
ready for beta (we have to merge in the color stuff and finish a few
more features like sound and serial port), but we are making steady
progress, and our luck is bound to get better.
BTW, it's always good to use "questions@ardi.com" instead of mailing
directly to me, because when I'm unavailable, my personal e-mail
backs up something fierce, but questions@ardi.com is always kept at a
