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Hi Folks,
Since I've been unable to keep up with personal e-mail, I'm trying to
use this list to keep you abreast even between new releases from us.
Here's a quick summary of what's up:
1.99a will not work on 386 based systems. We hope to have a fix
soon.
1.99a hasn't yet been released in any form other than a
transmogrified commercial version, because we had an important
meeting to go to on Monday.
The meeting was an informal talk with folks in the MAE (Macintosh
Application Environment) group at Apple computer. We showed them
what we had and discussed plans for ways in which we can work
together. They were impressed by our new Speedometer numbers (a 75
MHz DX4 486 gets comparable numbers to a 25 MHz 68040 based Mac).
The meeting went well, that's about all I'll say now.
Currently, different platforms and versions of Executor use slightly
different system files. This makes things difficult for us when it's
time to release a new version (especially, since we now support so
many different versions). As such, I'm in the process of changing
that right now. That's the last thing that holds back a release of
1.99a in the other forms, but since we added some new code for the
Apple demo, most likely we'll roll the new code in and make the new
release be 1.99b.
Our new synthetic CPU speed is fast enough that if we were to take
Apple ROMs and and Apple system file and drop them into our synthetic
CPU with some "glue" to hold it all together, DX4 based systems (>=
75 MHz '486) would have Quadra (>= 25 MHz 68040) performance and have
and exceedingly high degree of compatibility. We are now putting
together a "dirty room team" plan so that in the future, you'll be
able to buy a copy of System 7.x and drop it in on top of Executor
and get a much higher degree of compatibility -- you can't do that
now.
I'll post more infomation after I've gotten demo versions of 1.99x
Executor/DOS and Executor/Linux out and a copy of Executor/NEXTSTEP
