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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: Why won't Australia cover Executor?
- Date: 14 Jun 1996 23:00:53 -0600
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- In-reply-to: Michelle Pankowski's message of Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:47:22 +1000
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- >>>>> "Michelle" == Michelle Pankowski <d9060469@helios.usq.edu.au> writes:
- In article <Pine.HPP.3.91.960614003317.6349A-100000@helios.usq.edu.au> Michelle Pankowski <d9060469@helios.usq.edu.au> writes:
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- Michelle> A friend of mine wrote to The Australian (our county's
- Michelle> premier newspaper) and mentioned Executor. The
- Michelle> Australian has major coverage of Unix, Mac and PC
- Michelle> issues, software and hardware every Tuesday. The
- Michelle> Tuesday edition sells-out within hours of hitting the
- Michelle> news stands. Now four weeks later, they still haven't
- Michelle> mentioned Executor. You would think that it should rate
- Michelle> a mention even if only for the fact that it encompasses
- Michelle> all of the platforms that the paper serves. I know that
- Michelle> anyone I show Executor to is impressed and surprised
- Michelle> because they didn't know it existed.
-
- They don't know that it exists in the states, either. Now that we're
- well into our beta period that will start to change.
-
- Possibilities for no mention include:
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- They don't believe you -- there are many emulator hoaxes out there
- and no other emulators that run as quickly as Executor does
-
- They might remember an old version of Executor -- Executor/DOS was
- initially black and white only and ran far fewer pieces of software
-
- They might know about Executor 2 but dislike it because of its
- limitations -- Executor 2 is tricky. It runs enough stuff to be
- real useful to some people, marginally useful to others, an
- amusement to still more and largely useless to the rest. Sometimes
- people in the latter categories decide that if Executor isn't useful
- to them that it must be useless for everyone. Aargh!
-
- Michelle> Does anyone else from Australia want to write/email the
- Michelle> editor of The Australian to give Executor some well
- Michelle> earned publicity? Come on people, it would only take
- Michelle> five minutes of your time, but would enlighten some of
- Michelle> the luddites who think that only one OS and program
- Michelle> architecture should grace a PC.
-
- We only made 300 beta1 CD-ROMs, so we have to limit how many we can
- send out to periodicals, but if you think it would help, let me know
- their address and we can send them a beta1 CD-ROM to look at.
-
- Michelle> PS: good luck Ardi;-) Kick arse!
-
- Thanks. MacHack '96 is sort of our first debut. It will be
- interesting to see how we're received.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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