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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 MAA25352 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 12:43:21 -0800 Received: from ardi.com by ftp.ardi.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tMLF0-0007qAn; Sun, 3 Dec 95 13:42 MST Path: sloth.swcp.com!tesuque.cs.sandia.gov!ferrari.mst6.lanl.gov!newshost.lanl.gov!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!hookup!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!meibm22.cen.uiuc.edu!jh9572 From: jh9572@meibm22.cen.uiuc.edu (James Lloyd Hill) Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor Subject: Re: Executor usefulness? Date: 30 Nov 1995 19:40:40 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 27 Message-ID: <49l1bo$3ir@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <49hrhc$vm@leepai.cs.purdue.edu> <h6ghgzlq5xc.fsf@frog.loc3.tandem.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: meibm22.cen.uiuc.edu To: executor@nacm.com X-MailNews-Gateway: From newsgroup comp.emulators.mac.executor Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Dave Hwang <dhwang@loc3.tandem.com> writes: >Executor/Linux/DOS/NS is great, but ARDI probably thinks it's going to >be much more than that. Last I checked, Apple had somewhere around 5-10% of the home computer market. That means 90+% of the home computer market can't run Apple-compiled software, even if they'd like to. With Executor, that little stumbling block disappears. If only 1 in 1000 x86 machine owners decides the licensing fee for Executor is preferable to buying a Mac, ARDI stands to make bank. (Apple as well, since they'll get an increased market for their software...and it's not like I was going to buy a Mac anytime soon anyway, so they oughtta be glad of Executor's existence.) Everybody wins, including Linux users who really dig the thought of running binaries compiled for any platform...and it _will_ happen. Jim -- jh9572@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~jh9572/ As of Jan.1,1996, the jh9572 above will be j-hill5. Sorry. "The Dark One wants them. If the Dark One wants a thing, I oppose it. Can there be a simpler reason, or a better?"