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Received: from blob.best.net (blob.best.net [204.156.128.88]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA25632 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 31 Jul 1995 14:00:41 -0700 Received: from shell1.best.com (shell1 [204.156.128.10]) by blob.best.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id OAA15716; Mon, 31 Jul 1995 14:00:38 -0700 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 14:00:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Chad Page <cpage@shell1.best.com> To: Clifford Thomas Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: RE: Next Release of Executor 1.99p In-Reply-To: <m0scurO-00005nC@beaut.ardi.com> Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950731134939.26729C-100000@shell1.best.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Mon, 31 Jul 1995, Clifford Thomas Matthews wrote: > Chad> Any chance of releasing new BleedingEdge releases? I > Chad> liked having those for 1.99n(x)... > > Yes. It looks like 1.99o2 (there is no 1.99o1) will be cut within the > next couple of days. Of course I've been wrong almost every time I've > made a prediction in the past. O2 will have our new mods, but won't Sounds great! > do much towards solving the DOS bugs that we introduced with 1.99n. > However, that's going to be my top priority now (Mat's top priority > will be the NEXTSTEP port, Cotton's will be to write the remaining > pieces of missing functionality). > Sounds like the works getting divided up pretty well - I'd like to also see the SVGAlib port out (soon after NEXTSTEP?) to see what Executor/Linux can *really* do graphics-wise! > We now have much more information about System 7 requiring apps than > we did before the beginning of the hackathon. The good news is that > we were able to code up a lot more of System 7 during the hackathon. Good to hear... I know System 7 is like a brand new OS, for better or worse (a lot of it is for the worse in terms of memory and speed, although I hear 7.5 does something about that.) > The bad news is there are some areas that are going to be hard to code > up or spoof in time for 2.0 and these areas are indeed *required* by > some of the biggest apps. Lemme guess - the OLE 2 modules used by Word for Macindows 6 need a *lot* of System 7 features to support Word... OLE 2 code bloat is pretty bad under Windows, and when it's spooged into the Mac, it seems to have gotten worse. > Anyway, with this new information, we'll be > solidifying just what we need to have in 2.0 before we go beta. I'm > hoping we'll have an internal list in the next couple of days. We'll > then discuss it amongst ourselves for a while, then ask for your (the > members of this list) opinions. > That sounds like a good plan - I'm looking forward to seeing it. > Hmmm... to have less money than ARDI means to owe more than $600k. I > knew college tuition had gotten steep, but that's ridiculous! Well, I wasn't considering loans! :) Seriously, if I had the spare 10-20 million lying around, I'd look into buying up ARDI, and getting more engineers - in hardware and software. I think having $500 '030 Mac clones, without ties to Apple, would be great. Basically, I'd try to turn Executor into the Phoenix BIOS of Mac-dom, while evolving it as an emulator for IBMs at the same time. (The Phoenix BIOS was the first IBM clone BIOS widely available to other companies - Compaq's was first, but Phoenix had the first widely available clean-room approach for other companies, and would even pay legal fees... having a Phoenix BIOS was kinda a stamp of compatibility.) > In all seriousness, the question of student pricing has more to do > with what sort of distribution we use. One possibility would be to > have student pricing, but *only* when done through student bookstores. That sounds good. One of the best reasons to go to college it seems is to get great prices on software (Office 4.2 for < US$180 for instance :) ... that would make it much easier to afford. - Chad