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- >>>>> "Howii" == Howii <chenhh@cs.purdue.edu> writes:
- In article <49hrhc$vm@leepai.cs.purdue.edu> chenhh@cs.purdue.edu writes:
-
- Howii> Does anybody else question the usefulness of Executor? I like
- Howii> macintoshes but have a PC and have used Executor, but I balk at
- Howii> buying it because I never actually use a macintosh for any of my
- Howii> important tasks these days. There was a time that I liked Macs
- Howii> better for word processing, but these days, I'd rather use
- Howii> windows programs because they are native to my machine (and thus
- Howii> faster).
-
- Howii> Also, Macs are moving to PowerPC these days... is Executor
- Howii> planning on emulating that in the future?
-
- Howii> This might sound pretty critical, but I tend to find that most
- Howii> of the things I end up running are my old Mac shareware games.
-
- Howii> Is there a major flaw in my line of reasoning?
-
- Well, from what I've been following, the next generation of the
- Executor's synthetic CPU is set up to be more portable to different
- architectures.
-
- I use Quicken 4 on my linux machine, but I'd love to have Executor
- running on my sparc5 at work. I'd much rather have my Sparc+Executor
- than two separate machines; one of which I use 95% of the time, and the
- other just to use Excel.
-
- I don't know about you guys, but I think Executor has a pretty good
- future, and it's niche market can grow considerably. I think there must
- be a lot of engineers in industry that use workstations most of the
- time, but have to deal with a Mac or PC because the software only runs
- on those platforms. I don't know about them, but personally, I'd love to
- punt the Mac entirely.
-
- Executor/Linux/DOS/NS is great, but ARDI probably thinks it's going to
- be much more than that.
-
- Dave Hwang
- dhwang@loc3.tandem.com
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