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Received: from guava.phil.Lehigh.EDU (guava.phil.Lehigh.EDU [128.180.127.4]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA12407 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 19:08:50 -0700 Received: by localhost from guava.phil.Lehigh.EDU (router,WinSmtp -Win16- V1.07beta1.9.s); Fri, 27 Oct 1995 22:08:41 PDT Received: from guava.phil.lehigh.edu by guava.phil.Lehigh.EDU (128.180.100.37::mail daemon; unverified,WinSmtp -Win16- V1.07beta1.9.s); Fri, 27 Oct 1995 22:08:20 PDT Received: by guava.phil.lehigh.edu (NX5.67c/NX3.0S) id AA00593; Fri, 27 Oct 95 22:08:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 22:08:15 -0400 From: Alex Levine <alex@guava.phil.Lehigh.EDU> Message-Id: <9510280208.AA00593@guava.phil.lehigh.edu> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.100) Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.100) To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: TCP/IP executor Reply-To: atl2@lehigh.edu Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > Serial comm support for Executor would be a HUGE plus. I use Linux for all > my grunt Internet work (SLIP, TCP/IP, Netscape, shell account), but in > addition I actually like using commercial service providers for some features > (AOL in my case). If Executor provided decent serial comm support, then I > could bag DOS and WINDOWS, and run in an entirely Microsoft free environment. > That would be very desirable indeed. > It strikes me that eliminating the Microsoft environment entirely may be a good goal, but it isn't the purpose of Executor, at least not yet. E/NEXTSTEP has (or had as of 1.3) limited serial port access. That's a RELATIVELY modest goal. But just THINKING about the implementation problems associated with tcp/ip support gives me a headache. That's a job for a hard-core specialist. Executor is worth the registration fee for what it does already. But as someone who purchased a product called "Executor-MSWord 1.0" nearly four years ago and watched the product blossom, then Executor/DOS 1.0 when it was released, I can say that no other company I've EVER bought software from has subsequently lead me to believe that I'd not only bought a certain feature set, I'd made an investment in the future. I honestly NEVER thought I'd see half the features now available in all versions of Executor, and I'm confident that once these guys get the $$$ they need, they'll put together a networking emulator that puts Insignia's SoftNode to shame. Who says product loyalty is dead? Keep up the good work, ARDI! And the rest of you, send in your checks... --- Alexander Levine Review Editor, NEXT IN LINE tel/fax (call first) 610-882-0553 alex@guava.phil.lehigh.edu