When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all
go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It
wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.
From owner-executor Sun Apr 2 10:17:14 1995
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From: Chad Page <cpage@best.com>
To: Fred Salerno <salernof@polaris.ncs.nova.edu>
cc: Clifford Thomas Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>, executor@nacm.com
> What happens when you reach 1.99z and theres still a few things to be
> worked out? Does it become 1.99aa? or 1.99.1.a?
Maybe Executor 1.99pl27 (or 1.99.27)?
>
> I think Executor is a great product and runs better than other emulators.
> I recently saw a Macintosh 68040 running SoftWindows and it ran Windows
> 3.1 soooo slowly. Makes Executor run circles around it!
>
Yeah, I once saw SoftWindows on a Power Mac. That video was
SLOW! (Much slower than even early Executor/Linux releases I think...)
Good emulation code is nothing without good video.
- Chad
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From owner-executor Sun Apr 2 16:12:21 1995
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Bob> first of all, forgive me if this is an incredibly stupid
Bob> question, but i just don't know the answer. what exactly is
Bob> a "blitter"?
That's the low-level graphics engine, responsible for transferring
graphics bits here and there. Blitter speed is a substantial part of
overall graphics performance, although it's not the whole story.
-Mat
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Bob> second, i noticed that the next system 7 release from apple
Bob> will have a "new" 680x0 emulator. any chance that this had
Bob> anything to do with the meeting with ARDI? or did apple just
Bob> realize on their own that their emulator stunk?
I think Apple has always known that *in theory* dynamic recompilation
would be a win. I think Executor clearly demonstrated that it works
in practice, too.
However, we did not meet with the folks that did Apple's 68k emulator
for the PPC, and the MAE team, who we did meet with, *already* had a
dynamic recompiling synthetic CPU working before we ever set foot over
there.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
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HI all,
I just got the demo copy of Executor/DOS 1.99k. My problem is I can't
seem to be able to run it on my system ... Pentium-90 with 16Mb RAM.
Either the P.C. just died or there's an error message saying ... Memory
allocation Error. After that I have to cold-boot the P.C. coz warm-boot
also doesn't help.
But the program runs beautifully on my office's 486DX-2 66 with 8Mb
RAM. I'm not using any third party memory manager or anything ... just
the plain EMM386 and SMARTDRV with double_buffer (coz I got a SCSI HD).
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Subject: 1.99l still not out
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Hi Folks,
Although 1.99l is built and being tested over here, it doesn't pass
all of its tests. Our biggest concern is that our browser forgets the
status of the hot band each time a new application is run, at least in
some E/D configurations. There are a few other anomalous browser bugs
that I'm trying to track down, but conceivably we could ship 1.99l
without them fixed.
I've been up for a fairly long time, so I'll soon have to go to sleep
before I can pound on the browser problems, and even when I have that
fixed, I'll then have to start the testing cycle all over again, so
1.99l is probably at least another day away.
Sorry for raising false hopes.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
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