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- At 07:25 AM 6/14/96 GMT, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
- >I was so taken by executor that I have just ordered a copy for
- >my home system :)
-
- Good!
-
- >I've just installed Word 5.1 in my evaluation copy (E-DOS)
- >here at work, and it seems to work very well, so I know I bought well.
-
- Did you actually succeed in running the Word *Installer* ?
- If so, that should be put on the compat. list
-
- >However the target platform I am running on at home will be linux.
-
- Again, good!
-
- >I tried the Linux X version but it appears to be much slower than the DOS
- >one - I have 52Mb of RAM under Linux, but only 256kb of cache.
-
- That's because under Dos, Executor has direct access to the screen, instead
- of have=ing to use X calls. (I believe ARDI is planning on support for
- X extensions that allow direct access.
-
- >Will upgrading the cache improve performance much with E-linux?
- >Also, will running Executor in mono speed it up as well?
- >How do I set it to mono?
-
- To get b/w, use 'executor -bpp 1' (do 'executor -help for a list of
- all command line options). However, you will probably see more
- of a speed increase by using executor-svga.
-
- >The way I use it is to display the pseudo-mac on my SPARC X-console,
- >this seems to work well - and there seems to be no performance difference
- >using it either on the Linux X console or on the SPARC via X protocol.
- >I don't wish to run X servers on Linux as it is meant to be a file
- >server, not a workstation...
-
- That's an interesting config - E/L actually competing with MAE on
- a Sun!
-
- >When I displayed executor on a PC X server (MSDOS), however, performance
- >dropped quite a bit. Why would this be?
-
- The PC-X server was probably not written as well as it should be - but
- why not run Executor/Dos?
-
- >of course I did not bother to try spawning multiple sessions, because
- >linux won't handle it, but I would like to speed up video performance.
- >What is the best way to do this?
-
- What do you mean by that? Linux has no trouble running multiple
- instances of E/L _on_the_same_machine_.
-
- >Finally, is there a list of applications known to run on executor?
- >(yes I know Word 5 does)
-
- Check out ftp.ardi.com/pub/AppNotes
-
- >I am *not* interested in games, but useful software, and something like
- >Photoshop would be nice ;)
-
- NIHimage runs, and I believe PageMaker mostly works, as does QuarkXPress.
-
- >What about Excel or Powerpoint?
-
- Excel 4 runs, I think PowerPoint has problems.
-
- Ian
- vmeister@ios.com
- http://styx.ios.com/~vmeister/
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