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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 MAA08452 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 12:25:13 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id NAA14148; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 13:25:11 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sXZHJ-000YbCC; Sun, 16 Jul 95 13:23 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0sXZHJ-00005mC; Sun, 16 Jul 95 13:23 MDT Message-Id: <m0sXZHJ-00005mC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 95 13:23 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) To: dan_g@ix.netcom.com (Dan Guisinger) Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: How about this... In-Reply-To: <199507152242.PAA06822@ix7.ix.netcom.com> References: <199507152242.PAA06822@ix7.ix.netcom.com> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Guisinger <dan_g@ix.netcom.com> writes: Dan> How about add a folder called Start Up on the same drive as Dan> the System? Then we can have it start are most commonly used Dan> program right away. Just make a batch script and you can have that script start up anything you want. You can specify a program to run on the command line, and you can specify documents that such a program should open on the command line, too. C:\> executor System:Utilities:Tex-Edit:Tex-Edit "System:Utilities:Tex-Edit:Revision History" Will fire up Executor and tell it to run Tex-Edit and tell Tex-Edit to open up the "Revision History" file. Dan> And if you don't want it to do that, Dan> just hold down Escape. Also, when is a beta version of the Dan> apple editor going to be out. I know you said at some point Dan> that we would be able to edit the apple menu in the future to Dan> make it look like what ever we want. It won't happen until after Hackathon I. We may not even include that feature for 2.0 -- it's just a much lower priority task than almost all the other things we're working on. Dan> Also, are you using a compiler optimized for a pentium? Dan> I know it has a vast speed improvement for Pentium based Dan> machines, and since the 486 has the same type of pipeline (5 Dan> stages) it also greatly improves the speed. I was just Dan> thinking that you could really improve the speed of Executor Dan> (Hard to beleive to could get any faster than it is :) ). It wouldn't help us much. Almost all of Executor's time is spent in code that Executor itself has created, rather than code created by the compiler. Executor dynamically translates 68k to x86 code and also dynamically builds x86 code to do the blitting to the screen. The code that does the translation is already Pentium aware, so there isn't much to be gained there -- sorry. --Cliff ctm@ardi.com