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Re: Applications list plus a couple of questions...



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
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