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- On Wed, 12 Apr 1995, My Account wrote:
-
- > I have used this product since its first birth as the Magic Sac,
- > along with the associated box he made that beats up on the Atari
- > drives enough to make them read and write (etc) the 800 kbyte Mac
- > format. For several years, I ran such non-toy programs as
- > Mathematica, Maple, and SimWorld on this combination --- all the
- > programs I needed to run worked fine. As did telecommunication
- > programs (ie, Dave made the Atari serial port work with the Mac
- > software).
-
- One of the things that I think helped Small was that he started
- when Macintoshes were Macintoshes. By that I mean that in the old days,
- the Macintosh system could actually run in 128K, and the ROMS took 64K.
- Nowadays, the Macintosh System is larger than regular Windows. IMO,
- MacOS 7.5 means Macindoze 7.5, since the Macintosh appears to be being
- corrupted by trying to compete by Microsoft.
-
- If Apple falls, I think it will be because the Macintosh is no
- longer as easy to understand as it used to be - still easier than an IBM,
- but much tougher than a Mac Plus (how much more plug and play do you get
- than a Mac Plus, anyway - at least as long as you don't try to add RAM? :)
-
- I know - I have a weird vision of what the Macintosh should be.
- It should be a nice, small box with plenty of CPU power and a nice,
- compact, modular and expandable OS. It should be available in all in
- CPU+Monitor and modular forms. The Macs Apple sells now only hit two of
- those (CPU power and modular casing.)
-
- At the rate they're going now, MacOS 8 or 9 will be Windows
- NT-sized. Hopefully it will be as well designed and as stable, but I
- consider that doubtful unless Apple really takes a look at it's design.
- The memory management in Multifinder/System 7.x pales even by Windoze 3.1
- standards with the application blocks... it's too easy to fill up memory
- wastefully.
-
- Not that I don't want Executor to be able to run System 7.5 of
- course... when that happens Executor will stop emulating just Macintosh
- apps, and instead start emulating a whole Macintosh, which will be
- an incredible feat.
-
- > Is Dave still in business?
- >
- I heard something about it going out, but hopefully that's false.
-
- > ARDI is doing something different than Dave did. My regard is best
- > measured by noting that I purchased a copy of executor years ago, and
- > have recommended it to all others that have asked me.
- >
- I think ARDI is doing something incredibly difficult, especially
- considering thir limitations (budget + legalities), and doing a really
- good job at it. Executor is really turning out into something great...
- I'm looking forward to System 7.5 support too (call me a hippocrite, but
- that WILL let us all run tons more apps... :)
-
- - Chad
-
- >
- > Henning Leidecker
- >
- >
- >
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