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Received: from ftp.ardi.com (ftp.ardi.com [204.134.8.1]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA25279 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 12:42:31 -0800 Received: from ardi.com by ftp.ardi.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tMLE7-0007qBn; Sun, 3 Dec 95 13:41 MST Path: sloth.swcp.com!tesuque.cs.sandia.gov!ferrari.mst6.lanl.gov!newshost.lanl.gov!ncar!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!torn!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!tribune.usask.ca!karlsberg.usask.ca!andreas From: andreas@karlsberg.usask.ca (Andreas Schiffler) Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor Subject: Re: Executor usefulness? Date: 29 Nov 1995 21:29:01 GMT Organization: University of Saskatchewan Lines: 34 Message-ID: <49ijat$a8r@tribune.usask.ca> References: <49hrhc$vm@leepai.cs.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: karlsberg.usask.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] To: executor@nacm.com X-MailNews-Gateway: From newsgroup comp.emulators.mac.executor Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Howii (chenhh@cs.purdue.edu) wrote: : Does anybody else question the usefulness of Executor? Along the line of my "Linux Journal" article (issue 19, Nov 1995) I have the following to say from the point of view of a 100% Linux user: Executor provides much needed functionality for Linux since one can run commercial productivity applications. Linux by itself does not provide stable Windows emulation yet (and we are waiting and waiting and ...). There have only a few commercial wordprocessors, spreadsheets, etc. been ported to Linux. So one reasonable alternative is to use executor and Mac-applications to bridge this gap. Also, Mac applications can he bought fairly cheap from Mac users. Bottomline, in the short term executor can help me to get some much needed applications running under Linux. The future might look different though. Linux applications are emerging at a rapid pace at the moment. Also the Linux Windows emulator WINE does make steps forward and is expected to run major Windows applications (like AmiPro) in the not-too-far future. The usefullness of executor has to be re-evaluated at that stage of the game. I hope this short wrap-up helps anyone ... Andreas -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------_ Andreas Schiffler Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies (ISAS), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------_ Saskatoon Linux Group http://www.link.ca/~stooky/slg/slg/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------_ andreas@karlsberg.usask.ca andreas@milo.usask.ca schifflr@debye.usask.ca schiffler@skisas.usask.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------_