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id m0uUjLD-0007tvC; Fri, 14 Jun 96 18:35 MDT Received: from terminus (ppp-29.ts-7.hck.idt.net [169.132.49.173]) by styx.ios.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA06110; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 20:35:07 -0400 Mime-version: 1.0 Message-id: <1.5.4.32.19960615003011.00cbb438@styx.ios.com> Subject: Re: Applications list plus a couple of questions... To: Rachel Polanskis <r.polanskis@nepean.uws.edu.au>, executor@ardi.com X-mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) From: Ian Viemeister <vmeister@ios.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 20:30:11 -0400 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-sender: vmeister@styx.ios.com Sender: owner-executor@ardi.com Precedence: bulk At 07:25 AM 6/14/96 GMT, Rachel Polanskis wrote: >I was so taken by executor that I have just ordered a copy for >my home system :) Good! >I've just installed Word 5.1 in my evaluation copy (E-DOS) >here at work, and it seems to work very well, so I know I bought well. Did you actually succeed in running the Word *Installer* ? If so, that should be put on the compat. list >However the target platform I am running on at home will be linux. Again, good! >I tried the Linux X version but it appears to be much slower than the DOS >one - I have 52Mb of RAM under Linux, but only 256kb of cache. That's because under Dos, Executor has direct access to the screen, instead of have=ing to use X calls. (I believe ARDI is planning on support for X extensions that allow direct access. >Will upgrading the cache improve performance much with E-linux? >Also, will running Executor in mono speed it up as well? >How do I set it to mono? To get b/w, use 'executor -bpp 1' (do 'executor -help for a list of all command line options). However, you will probably see more of a speed increase by using executor-svga. >The way I use it is to display the pseudo-mac on my SPARC X-console, >this seems to work well - and there seems to be no performance difference >using it either on the Linux X console or on the SPARC via X protocol. >I don't wish to run X servers on Linux as it is meant to be a file >server, not a workstation... That's an interesting config - E/L actually competing with MAE on a Sun! >When I displayed executor on a PC X server (MSDOS), however, performance >dropped quite a bit. Why would this be? The PC-X server was probably not written as well as it should be - but why not run Executor/Dos? >of course I did not bother to try spawning multiple sessions, because >linux won't handle it, but I would like to speed up video performance. >What is the best way to do this? What do you mean by that? Linux has no trouble running multiple instances of E/L _on_the_same_machine_. >Finally, is there a list of applications known to run on executor? >(yes I know Word 5 does) Check out ftp.ardi.com/pub/AppNotes >I am *not* interested in games, but useful software, and something like >Photoshop would be nice ;) NIHimage runs, and I believe PageMaker mostly works, as does QuarkXPress. >What about Excel or Powerpoint? Excel 4 runs, I think PowerPoint has problems. Ian vmeister@ios.com http://styx.ios.com/~vmeister/