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- From: ernstoud@euronet.nl (Ernst_J._Oud)
- Subject: Executor/DOS review in MACup
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- Translation from German of the review of Executor/DOS 1.99k
- and the 'interview' with Clifford T. Matthews.
-
- MACup - may 1995; page 32-34
- ISSN 0935-6282
-
- MACup Verlag GmbH
- +49 40 3910901
-
- Original author : Volker Riebartsch
- Translation : Ernst J. Oud
- ernstoud@euronet.nl
-
- (C) MACup Verlag GmbH
- The copyright for this lies fully with MACup Verlag GmbH. Translating
- it recognizes this copyright. Before using this review for commercial
- purposes please contact MACup.
-
- Some general background: MACup is the leading German magazine for the
- Mac community. Germany is hard to penetrate for non-German magazines.
- Even magazines like MacWorld are translated (MacWelt).
- The monthly magazine has a print run of some 77.054 copies.
- It is available in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and The Netherlands.
-
- This issue carried a lot of news on developments from Apple planned for
- 1995, a.o. the new Performa's 5200 and 6200. The review of Executor/DOS
- was amidst a large theme on 'Apple '95'
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- [On the cover a large banner just below the MACup logo:]
-
- 'For 99 dollar: Mac now on Intel'
-
- [On page 32 the review starts:]
-
- [Picture of Sharp colour notebook with caption:]
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- The MacOS on Sharp's 'PC-8660' colour notebook.
- Thanks to 'Executor', Mac programs can be started and used without
- any problems on the Intel 486 PC. Executor emulates System 6.0.7
- and offers upto 256 colours.
-
- [Headline:]
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- MacOS inside
- To get the MacOS on a DOS PC, is the declared goal of the computer
- giants when they talk about clones. A small firm from New Mexico
- acted faster; they offer this summer for $99 a Mac emulator that
- could shake the market.
-
- [Body text:]
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- When in the decision making units of the large computer companies
- the talks on licensing Apple's operating system by third parties
- and ports of the MacOS to Intel and other processors, still continue,
- a small firm from Albuquergue, New Mexico, this summer will shake
- the Intel market with their program 'Executor DOS 2.0'.
-
- Mac-look-and-feel-on-Intel.
- The developers from the firm Ardi (Abacus Research and Development
- Incorporated) around founder Clifford T. Matthews have succeeded
- the walk on the sharp edge that is required to port the MacOS on
- other platforms without hurting Apple's copyright claims and without
- going into battle with the legal departments.
- Executor after it starts offers us in the test version 1.99k the
- normal Mac desktop background; typical Finder elements like Trash,
- harddisk or floppy-disk icons are not to be seen however.
- The functionality, that Finder has on a Mac, is implemented by the
- integrated 'File-browser'. Clifford Matthews stresses, that the
-