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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA14561 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 16:31:32 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id RAA23280; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 17:31:31 -0600 Received: by mailhost (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sIP5d-000YbmC; Sun, 4 Jun 95 17:28 MDT Message-Id: <m0sIP5d-000YbmC@mailhost> Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 17:28 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews) To: dan_g@ix.netcom.com (Dan Guisinger) Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Executor 1.99n In-Reply-To: <199506031627.JAA28208@ix3.ix.netcom.com> References: <199506031627.JAA28208@ix3.ix.netcom.com> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Guisinger <dan_g@ix.netcom.com> writes: Dan> Is Executor 1.99n supposed to be out this week? I always end Dan> up passing the beta versions out at school, but I can't do Dan> that after Thursday. Sorry. It won't be out until next weekend at earliest. We still think we can make next weekend, though. So far we've fixed tons of bugs, totally revamped the blitter, got Bolo running, got Arashi limping, allow access to D:, E:, etc. under DOS, allow access to DOS filesystems under Linux, have adjusted E/D to allow printing multiple times within one session,and have done a bunch of work on allowing fonts and DAs to be installed by Loser. We've also written and integrated, but not yet debugged the code that allows Loser to format floppies. We still have a little new code to write (finish font/da installation, international keyboard mapping, code to allow apps to detect Executor attributes) and a bunch more bug fixing to do, then we need to hunt for new bugs that our mods have introduced. Dan> Also, how many more 1.99x beta versions are there going to Dan> be, and what will change in each one? Hard to say. Here are some of the major things that still need to be added. They may all be added to 1.99o, or we may have to split them into 1.99o and 1.99p. NEXTSTEP port SVGAlib port (will be released soon after NEXTSTEP port) 16 and 32 bit per pixel support Deferred Task Manager spoofing depth setting through cmd-shift-5 a few misc. color traps color picker nicer error messages some system 7 support system 7 filesystem calls apple events system 7 standard file package mods Assuming our current feature set for 1.99n is implemented and the above features have been added, then we'll be done with adding new features and be able to work a little more on debugging tools and software acquisition and then we'll have our hackathon, where we do nothing but get apps to run better under Executor. The hackathon period will last five weeks (two with Cotton in Albquerque, one with Cotton back in Boston, two more with Cotton in Albuquerque) and then we'll have a six week beta period, where we will fix remaining egregious bugs and log all other bugs. All told it's looking like 2.0 will be in beta in mid August and will be in production in early October. This will be approximately an 18 month slip from our original projection of when 2.0 would ship, but that prediction was made before 1.0 was even in production, and back then we were envisioning a 2.0 that would have had a few more features but would have lacked 32-bit color QuickDraw (only the "old color model" was going to be supported), would have had less System 7 support, would have run fewer applications and would have had a slower synthetic CPU and a slower blitter. --Cliff