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- Dave Hwang <dhwang@loc3.tandem.com> writes:
-
- >>>>>> "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?
-
- What ARDI really shoudl do is make a kickass x86 emulator for ppcs. :-)
-
- >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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