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Executor elsewhere + What's to see at ARDI's NeXTWORLD Expo booth



>>Since the ROMLib is running on several platforms, what is the
>>schedule for Executor-type programs on other machines?  Are some of
>>these avaiable now?  I would assume that making M*c emulation available
>>on a wide variety of machines is important to ARDI's future.

Here are the high priority items at ARDI (not in any order, except Customers come first)

	. Customers (selling, providing info)

	. NeXTWORLD Expo (having literature, demos and people over there)

	. Printing

	. Word *5.0* Support

	. Excel 3.0 Support

	. ROMlib (licensing, advertising, getting clients, helping clients) on other platforms

	. Executor on other platforms (synthetic CPU)

Currently we're working on all of the above items on almost a round robin basis.  Our plans  
for non-NeXT support are predicated (with the exception of HP's Apollo line) on the  
development of a synthetic CPU.  While I was at home resting I did the initial specs and  
much of the implementation.  If we do well at NeXTWorld then we should be able to rehire  
a couple of important employees and maybe even take someone on to do printing.  In that  
rosy scenario we should have Executor running in house on a brand of hardware that I  
can't mention because of non-disclosure agreements.  Our synthetic CPU comes in both a  
generic (no native CPU tailoring required) implementation for fast "esoteric" processors,  
and a machine specific version that takes into account the native instruction set of the  
processor on which it's run.  We're looking into licensing our synthetic CPU technology to  
get some more money so we work even faster.

At NeXTWORLD Expo we will be demoing Word 5.0 limping/running, Excel 3.0 limping  
and we may be able to show some of our printer support although it's very rough right now  
and we may choose to keep a bag over its head.  We were hoping to demo our synthetic  
CPU technology but pneumonia slowed me down much more than I thought it would.

Sorry there are no hard dates on the above, I'm hoping for non-68k implementations of  
Executor hitting beta sites in early March.

		--Cliff