Executor 2.0/executorv2.0.iso/pc/dos/extra/docs/maillist/text/archive.96/text0383.txt

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>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Miller <[e-mail]> writes:

    Bill> I have been playing around with Executor, and various Adobe
    Bill> DEMO products with it.  I noticed that Illustrator likes
    Bill> to copy files to the system folder.  Thats all fine and
    Bill> dandy except that the system drive is quite small.  Would
    Bill> it be possible to make either the MAKEHFV program resize
    Bill> the drive, without affecting the data in the drive, or at
    Bill> least find another solution.  This is also a potential
    Bill> problem when you do plan to release the drop-in system 7
    Bill> support as it won't fit on a 2 meg drive.  (or about that
    Bill> size).

By the time we have drop-in support, we'll have fixed this problem.

In the meantime, you can do this:

    make a new system drive via

        makehfv System newsys.hfv 10m

    then go into Executor and copy everything from the original System:
    into the new System:

    move aside the old system

        move exsystem.hfv exsystem.bak

    rename the new system

        move newsys.hfv exsystem.hfv

    Bill> Also, as of 1.99p8 you broke the Adobe PhotoShop Installer,
    Bill> and Adobe Illustrator does not function.  I have tried
    Bill> everything I can think of.

Please check and see how it goes under 1.99q4.  If it's still broken
there, we'll try to pick up the demo installer and fix it.

    Bill> Bill Miller [e-mail]

Thanks.

--Cliff
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>>>>> "William" == WILLIAM J MILLER <[e-mail]> writes:

    William> I believe that if Apple were to either put the OS on
    William> Intel hardware, or support ARDI with all the technical
    William> specs that they / you needed, they could become more
    William> profitable.  Where had Microsoft made the bulk of its
    William> money? They did it by licensing the OS.

I do not think that is true.  I think that helped them significantly
in the beginning, but I think their Apps (on both platforms) is where
the bulk of their income comes from.

    William> Apple really can't produce the volum,e of custom ASICs
    William> needed by clone manufacturers.  Thats why the deal with
    William> gateway fell through.  If they out the os on NON Apple
    William> hardware, they can work out licensing agreements, to
    William> distribute the OS.

That will change with PPCP, which will be shipping before we'd get
MacOS released for Intel boxes.

    William> You guys (speaking to ARDI) really ought to work with
    William> QUIX, using their technology to drop in system 7.5, and
    William> allow them to use your emulator.  Crate a mutual
    William> technology exchange.

I disagree.  What QUIX did wasn't very hard, nor was it a new concept.
Just like the people who have made Amigas run MacOS, they've taken the
ROMs and System file for a PPC based machine and added some glue so a
different PPC based machine can use them.  When we can afford to use
dirty engineers, I don't think we'll have much trouble duplicating
that type of work.  We already do much of the same stuff (and tons
more beyond it) already.

    William> Did anyone read in a recent MacWeek, about Apple wanting
    William> to put Windows or Windows 95 on the Mac.  They ran into
    William> some problems.  They lost there OEM licensing agreement
    William> with Microsoft, and in order to get a new one, they must
    William> swear that they will not sue MS for patent infringement.
    William> They then said, well why not put the non-upgrade version
    William> of WIndows95 on the Mac.  Problem, it comes on 1.7 (or
    William> so) meg floppies that the mac (Super) Drive can't read.
    William> The full product does not come on CD.

    William> Why does Apple want Windows on Apple hardware, but they
    William> don't want MacOS on Intel (or compatible (Cyrix, AMD,
    William> NexGen)) hardware?

We don't know that the report is correct, and it's not clear whether
the "new" Apple will or won't want MacOS on Intel.  One time in the
past, Apple evaluated the possibility of putting MacOS on Intel and
they came to the conclusion that 1) the only way it can be done
efficiently is to do it in a source compatible way, not a binary
compatible way and 2) the ISVs wouldn't do the ports.  It is much
easier to remember the result than the reason for the result, so many
people will think "tried that -- it didn't work" when they think about
MacOS on Intel.

    William> Bill Miller

--Cliff
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Does anyone know if Fontographer works under Executor?

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Are there any desent evaluation programs for the m68000 written for Mac which
run under executor?

I know Mac wasn't exactly designed for assembler probramming, but maybe there
is some software for it anyway.


Boerge Strand