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- Hi Folks,
-
- BETA 1 CD-ROMS ARE HERE
-
- A week ago we received the 300 beta 1 CD-ROMs we had made up. Because
- of the holiday weekend we didn't get a draft of the manual off to be
- photocopied until Tuesday. Wednesday we sent the first batch of
- CD-ROMs to people who had paid to receive them.
-
- We're now in the process of getting copies out to the authors of the
- shareware, freeware and demoware included on the CD-ROM. The next set
- will go to people at Apple, computer press, regular press, Mac-only
- ISVs and potential distributors. We now can turn around beta1 orders
- (both new orders and $25 beta1 copies to existing customers) in a day.
- Sorry for the previous delay.
-
- UPDATER COMING SOON
-
- In the meantime we've fixed a few bugs here and there and Mat is
- developing an updater program so that people with Executor 2 CD-ROMs
- (beta or production) will be able to download bleeding edge patches
- from the net.
-
- ARDI ON TV
-
- In the U.S., on Wednesday, June 12, there will be a PBS TV show that
- is video update to Robert X. Cringely's _Accidental Empires_. I'm not
- sure what the name of the show is. Some footage of ARDI employees
- (may only be a couple minutes -- we're not the stars of this show) Mat
- Hostetter, Bill Goldman and myself apparently made it into the final
- cut, but I haven't seen it myself so I don't know just how goofy we'll
- appear. Yes, overs six months ago Robert X. Cringely brought a film
- crew to ARDI world headquarters to shoot the footage. We are honored.
-
- CLIFF AT MACHACK '96
-
- Mat Hostetter and I wrote a new white paper (Mat's previous white
- paper is available as ftp://ftp.ardi.com/pub/SynPaper) for MacHack
- '96. I'll be presenting it and giving Executor demos during the
- small, but influencial conference. After the paper has been published
- we'll make it available on our web site. http://www.machack.com
- provides more information about MacHack. An abstract of our paper is
- available from http://www.machack.com/96/Papers.html
-
- ARDI GETS FASTER NET CONNECT (hopefully)
-
- US West is theoretically on premesis to install a T1 line at ARDI.
- We've had a lot of trouble getting US West to do their part, but with
- any luck we should be on the net at 224k soon, and if we need more
- bandwidth we'll easily be able to move up to full T1 (assuming
- Executor sales continue to rise). Currently ardi.com is connected
- through a 24-hour 28.8k PPP dialup connect. After the upgrade we'll
- start the process of building the complete "what works, what doesn't"
- database.
-
- THANKS
-
- As always, thanks for your interest in Executor. It's looking like
- Executor 2 will be a successful product. We'll spend the revenue
- wisely. Remember, we've come this far on a shoestring budget. The
- second half of '96 should be a very exciting time.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-