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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 MAA25393 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 12:43:51 -0800 Received: from ardi.com by ftp.ardi.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tMLEy-0007qMn; Sun, 3 Dec 95 13:42 MST Path: sloth.swcp.com!tesuque.cs.sandia.gov!ferrari.mst6.lanl.gov!newshost.lanl.gov!ncar!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!tandem!usenet From: Dave Hwang <dhwang@loc3.tandem.com> Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor Subject: Re: Executor usefulness? Date: 30 Nov 1995 11:05:35 -0800 Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 40 Message-ID: <h6ghgzlq5xc.fsf@frog.loc3.tandem.com> References: <49hrhc$vm@leepai.cs.purdue.edu> Reply-To: dhwang@loc3.tandem.com NNTP-Posting-Host: frog.loc3.tandem.com In-reply-to: chenhh@cs.purdue.edu's message of 29 Nov 1995 09:42:51 -0500 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.9 To: executor@nacm.com X-MailNews-Gateway: From newsgroup comp.emulators.mac.executor Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Howii" == Howii <chenhh@cs.purdue.edu> writes: In article <49hrhc$vm@leepai.cs.purdue.edu> chenhh@cs.purdue.edu writes: Howii> Does anybody else question the usefulness of Executor? I like Howii> macintoshes but have a PC and have used Executor, but I balk at Howii> buying it because I never actually use a macintosh for any of my Howii> important tasks these days. There was a time that I liked Macs Howii> better for word processing, but these days, I'd rather use Howii> windows programs because they are native to my machine (and thus Howii> faster). Howii> Also, Macs are moving to PowerPC these days... is Executor Howii> planning on emulating that in the future? Howii> This might sound pretty critical, but I tend to find that most Howii> of the things I end up running are my old Mac shareware games. Howii> Is there a major flaw in my line of reasoning? Well, from what I've been following, the next generation of the Executor's synthetic CPU is set up to be more portable to different architectures. I use Quicken 4 on my linux machine, but I'd love to have Executor running on my sparc5 at work. I'd much rather have my Sparc+Executor than two separate machines; one of which I use 95% of the time, and the other just to use Excel. I don't know about you guys, but I think Executor has a pretty good future, and it's niche market can grow considerably. I think there must be a lot of engineers in industry that use workstations most of the time, but have to deal with a Mac or PC because the software only runs on those platforms. I don't know about them, but personally, I'd love to punt the Mac entirely. Executor/Linux/DOS/NS is great, but ARDI probably thinks it's going to be much more than that. Dave Hwang dhwang@loc3.tandem.com