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Executor 1.2.2a available via anonymous ftp



Dear Folks,

If you are an adventurous type, and you have NeXTSTEP 3.1 on either  
black or white hardware, you should pick up  
ftp.cs.unm.edu:pub/ardi/Executor_122a.tar.  I tried to put it on  
nova.cc.purdue.edu but the ftp connection dropped after about a meg.   
It's too early in the day to put it on cs.orst.edu; I'll do that in  
about an hour.

Don't be mislead by the "a" suffix.  This is a major new release, in  
that it has support for I486 based machines.  However, we know that  
there are still bugs in the glue that connects our synthetic CPU and  
Executor proper.  We'll be spending the next few weeks getting rid of  
these bugs and adding support for HFS_XFer before we release 1.3.  If  
you have a Motorola based NeXT and you're running NS 3.1, you'll  
probably find that 1.2.2a is better than 1.2.2 (Spectre works for  
instance), but remember, it is experimental.  I suggest you try it  
before deleting 1.2.2.  (If you have NS 3.0, you can try 1.2.2a, but  
we don't have any 3.0 machines to try it on and you may want to tweak  
"ardimods.s" for 3.0).

We won't be sending 1.2.2a out on floppies; instead we'll be  
replacing the ftp copy with 1.2.2b and 1.2.2c etc. until the i486  
version works just about as good as the Motorola version.  We will  
then send 1.3 out on floppies and we'll even include a copy of  
Executor/DOS for being patient with us.

BTW, if you haven't purchased Executor yet, you should still pick up  
the new version.  We have changed our demo policy and now you can use  
Executor for up to ten minutes at a time before you purchase it.   
We've also included more freeware/demoware/shareware in  
ExecutorVolume so if you are really bold, you'll have the tools that  
you need to pull still more stuff off of Mac FTP sites, like  
sumex-aim.stanford.edu.  TELL YOUR FRIENDS.

The availability of 1.2.2a will be posted in comp.sys.next.announce  
shortly.

	--Cliff