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- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 13:44:28 -0700 (PDT)
- From: Chad Page <cpage@best.com>
- To: "Clifford T. Matthews" <ctm@ardi.com>
- cc: Dan Guisinger <dan_g@ix.netcom.com>, executor@nacm.com
- Subject: Re: Executor 1.99n
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- On Sun, 4 Jun 1995, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
-
- > >>>>> "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
-
- Fun... Bolo really needs Appletalk support though :)
-
- > 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.
-
- It sounds like 1.99n will move Executor to being more of a
- Mac-like environment. This is all pretty cool stuff.
-
- > 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.
-
- Something which strikes me with the new Executor releases is that
- after a release with many new features, there are usually some bugs that
- make it into the release (eg 1.99l). I'd expect a few bugs in 1.99n at
- first... BTW, PLEASE release a Linux and DOS version at the same time, so
- if it turns out to have bugs which would preclude a release because of
- stability reasons, those adventurous among us can try it anyway. :)
-
- > 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)
-
- I'm REALLY glad to see this go in before 2.0! (just compare the
- performance of linuxxdoom and linuxsdoom... :) This will make Executor
- fast enough for use on just about anything videowise. Not only that - if
- the port is written right, it can use a linear frame buffer on cards
- which support it. On those cards, it will be faster than Executor/DOS even.
-
- > 16 and 32 bit per pixel support
-
- Cool... will it work in 24-bit mode under SVGALIB?
-
- > 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.
-
- Plus, of course, Linux support :)
-
- BTW, are there any plans to make a FreeBSD version of Executor?
- That would be very trivial to do, and help the FreeBSD people out quite a
- bit (I'm just starting to look at it myself.) (Guess : after 2.0 ships :)
-
- - Chad
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