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- Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
- >
- > Craig has hit the nail on the head. We spend ridiculously large
- > amounts of time now messing around with DOS intracacies that we can
- > avoid when we have a more advanced OS backing us up. In all liklihood
- > we won't add support for things like networking to the DOS specific
- > version and that will save us time because we'll be able to add
- > support for networking to the other versions *much* quicker.
-
- It'd be a major pain anyway, having to comply with multiple standards
- for networkind on one platform. Good idea, guys.
-
- >
- > Currently it's only translation of various docs. We do hope to
- > support WorldScript but that will only be done if either we have a
- > sufficiently large revenue stream that we can take on that project
- > without having to scale back our "system 7.x on Executor" project or
- > if we can get funding for that project from a source other than our
- > revenue stream. I think the latter is likely once E2 is more widely
- > known.
-
- It will be nice to use real MacOS on the Executor platform. Now that
- Apple has dedicated themselves to high-end systems only, though, it
- might (might being the operative word) be possible to get some help
- direct from Apple. Stranger things _have_ happened...
-
- > I know people have gotten SoftPC, SoftWindow's precursor to run. I
- > don't know about SoftWindows. I'm sure it would be too slow to be of
- > much use to the Linux community -- they already have dosemu and WINE.
-
- As a Linux user, I agree with this assessment. The emulation of Mac
- programs may be reasonably fast, but why mess with the extra overhead of
- translating ix86 instructions to 680x0 and back to ix86? Wine may not be
- perfect, but hopefully someday it'll be close! Keep up the good work on
- Executor. I hope to buy the Linux version soon. This is sure to be a
- gold mine.
-
- Derrik Pates
- dpates@cavern.nmsu.edu
-
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