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- Dear Folks,
-
- First let me start off by apologizing for the two personal responses that I sent out
- recently. In both cases I meant to change the return address but instead changed the
- Subject field. I can't prevent people from sending personal messages to me via this
- mailing group (I certainly would prefer they be sent to iclone!ctm@unmvax.cs.unm.edu)
- but I will try real hard not to respond to them here.
-
- As for the objections to our proposed $700 price for a full blown runs everything under
- the sun emulator, our intent is at that time to offer educational discounts and also to offer
- crippled, application specific versions (in addtion, by then we will be selling through
- distributors, which will boost our sales and help the NeXT community grow, but will result
- in a lower profit per unit sold). Currently, Executor-MSW is application specific due to our
- prioritizing of bug fixes. When we have the real thing out we hope to still have products
- out that are in the current price range. Details remain to be worked out but it would be
- something like a general emulator that *doesn't* run any of the top 25 applications for $100
- or less with the idea that for more money you can be enabled to run more applications. I
- can't make any promises because there are some pretty large companies concerned with
- macintosh compatibility and the market forces are pretty overwhelming.
-
- One final comment: since I'm not running the mailing list, I don't know just how many
- people are on it so I really can't get a feel for whether I'm putting out too much information
- (or just putting out too much verbiage with the information) . If you believe I am, or I'm not
- send e-mail directly to me DO NOT POST TO THE MAILING GROUP. I'll try to listen to
- what you say but of course there are bound to be conflicting views so even if you vote yea
- or nea it may appear I'm ignoring you when in reality I'm just listening to other people.
-
- --Cliff
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