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- From: crolinsky@vassar.edu (Craig Olinsky)
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:33:41 -0400
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- >I'm disappointed in the idea that E3 will still not allow the true MacOS
- >to be placed on top of it. If ARDI is planning a Win95 specific version,
- >that could be AFTER the MacOS can be placed on top...it just seems that
- >the DOS version is fine for Win95 and more folks might like to use System
- >7.5 before the Win95 version...
- >
- >Mike
-
- Actually, in some ways the a Windows 32-bit port would facilitate ARDI
- devoting more time to work on System 7.xx support in that the use of
- Windows APIs for hardware independence would reduce their time spent on
- issues of: system configuration, graphics card drivers/support (well, they
- are already using univbe, but...), sound card, SCSI drive/CD-ROM support,
- etc. that they have with E/D. There also is an opportunity for speed gains
- using WinG/DirectX, better use of memory, etc.
-
- Also, consider that a Windows 95 port is also a Windows NT port. E/D has not
- been able to run on NT until the latest bleeding edges, due to such things
- as NT's exclusionof DOS sound drivers, etc., due to various protection
- issues (i
- s'pose), etc.
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- Unrelated Comments (well, related to Executor, but...)
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-
- 1. Nice splash screen.
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- 2. I noticed in the credits, the mention of a Japanese translation/(version?)
- of Executor....what is the status of this? What does it involve?
- Is it merely translation of documentation? dialogs and menu boxes?
- or is it planned to allow actual execution of kanjitalk applications &
- DBCS character entry (of course, this would involve worldscript extensions,
- which i assume are not one of the highest priorities at the moment).
-
- (At this point I am just VERY impressed with ARDI's work on exeuctor, but
- have only played with the demo because I have a mac and therefore no
- direct need for it. A version with Japanese language support (or even,
- eventually, the ability to drop in worldscript) would be, in my mind
- much preferable (and cheaper!) than purchasing Apples Japanese Language
- Kit or KanjiTalk/Japanese 7.x)
-
- 3. I'm probably completely off here (and not that too many people are
- running it), but would there be any benefit to setting up
- powermac-compatibility by producing a version of Executor on this
- RISC-Based Windows NT?
-
- 4. Has anyone tried to run SoftWindows under Executor? It would be
- interesting to compare the speed of Windows apps under SoftWin under
- Executor to those on a real mac...PLUS if it ran at a reasonable speed it
- would be an additional
- option for running Dos/Windows applications under Linux. (Rather funny
- too: A unix-"clone" running a mac-"clone" running a windows "clone".)
-
- Pardon my grammar. This is my break from an all-night thesis writing session.
-
-
- Craig Olinsky
- crolinsky@vaxsar.vassar.edu
-
- --still waiting for a macintosh port of executor *grin*
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