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- In article <4e4fmb$m3l@decaxp.harvard.edu>,
- shuchart@fas.harvard.edu (Scott Shuchart) wrote:
- >In article <4e0ooo$f5l@news.voicenet.com>, chessman@voicenet.com (ChessMan)
- >declares...
- >
- >> The program is
- >>essentially emulating System 6.0.7 which Apple stopped shipping with their
- >>computers over 3 years ago
- >[snip]
- >>The software runs without any control panels or inits - a 'real' mac user
- >has
- >>many of these little programs at the tip of their finger tips - and of
- >course
- >>it's not multi-processing aware - to run two applications; you must run it
- >>under windows and start it twice. So it really doesn't have the feel of a
- >>MAC - but hey - it plays that little Risk game like a champ.
- >
- >I don't actually disagree with any of this, but thought it might be a good
- >opportunity to remind people/clue in newcomers about the long-term ARDI
- >strategy, at least as I, a registered Executor customer with no other ties to
- >ARDI, understand it.
- >
- >Right now, they're doing everything they can to get a commercially viable
- >version 2.0 out the door. The revenue from that will fund development for
- >networking support, serial port support, better sound, more colors, etc.
- >This may raise yet more money. But the longer-term goal, for version 3.0 or
- >so, I guess, is to make Executor a base onto which one will install a real
- >copy of System 7.x and run all MacOS functionality.
- >
- >There are three or so obstacles:
- >
-
-
- Sorry, I didn't realize how negative my post sounded until i read it again.
- I'm still amazed at the Speedometer results running on a 90 mhz Pentium - and
- the speed for a chess program running in emulation is pretty amazing too. It
- wasn't too many years ago that the speed were talking about in emulation was
- considered BLAZING for a MAC. Keep up the good work folks!
-
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- From: Douglas Wing <dwing@thymaster.interaccess.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
- Subject: Re: ARDI mentioned in MacWEEK !
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 20:56:46 -0600
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- On 26 Jan 1996, Nick Kralevich wrote:
-
- > Throughout the article, all they did was mention "UNIX",
- > instead of "Linux". I wonder why... After all, as far as I know,
- > the "UNIX" version of executor consists only of the "Linux" version.
- >
-
- There are three versions of Executor out. DOS, Linux, NeXTStep. As I
- sit here at a NeXTStep system 3.2 machine, I can't help but notice how
- much it resembles UNIX. <VBG>
-
- Regards,
- Doug
-
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