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Re: Mac on PC



>>>>> "Bonzo" == Bonzo  <bonzo@wolsi.com> writes:
In article <bonzo-1602962139220001@sl3.wolsi.com> bonzo@wolsi.com (Bonzo) writes:

    Bonzo> In article <4fvt5f$db0@macondo.dmu.ac.uk>, se2lc@dmu.ac.uk
    Bonzo> (Leslie Carter) wrote:

    >> In article
    >> <jpo.snsr-1202962141200001@vtr159.ramp.together.net>,
    >> jpo.snsr@together.net (John O'Rourke) writes: Is there such a
    >> program or hardware device that will rum Macintosh programs
    >> on a pentium?  Thanks in advance.  John O'Rourke
    >> jpo.snsr@together.net
    >> 
    >> I think , although I'm not completly sure that Executor is the
    >> program you're after.  It's a commercial piece of software ,
    >> there's a free 10 minute demo , or you can pay out for the full
    >> working un-timed version.
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Les


    Bonzo> Executor is beyond a joke. Just read the list of
    Bonzo> non-supported features.  Put simply, this is what you get:

    Bonzo> System 6 No TrueType fonts (bitmapped only) no control
    Bonzo> panels no inits DA support is flakey no appletalk no serial
    Bonzo> ports

Many programs that require System 7 now run under Executor, although
the other limitations mentioned above are still there.  We who make
Executor do not try to mislead potential customers.  We list
limitations, we have a demo version so people can test the software
for themselves and we have a 30-day money back guarantee just in case
any mistakes are made.

    Bonzo> One real whiz bang program. What a joke. Imagine
    Bonzo> SoftWindows only being able to run Windows 1.0 programs,
    Bonzo> and thats about what you get with executor.

SoftWindows will not help John O-Rourke.  SoftWindows runs absolutely
no Macintosh software (except when SoftWindows is running Executor).

Executor is useful to some people, and it's less useful or even
useless to others.

Technically Executor is a significantly more complicated undertaking
than SoftWindows, because we do not use any of Apple's software in
order to get Mac programs to run.  In fact, we haven't even
disassembled any of Apple's ROMs or System file in order to achieve
what we've done so far.

Insignia licenses Microsoft's OS's (DOS, Windows) and that is why they
have a higher degree of compatibility.  Even with that, for a long
time SoftWindows did not run programs that required 386 enhanced mode
-- back then it was useful to some people but not others, presumably
that's still the case, although with 386 enhanced emulation,
SoftWindows is now useful to more people.

Executor is also significantly faster than SoftWindows; Executor is so
fast that if you're replacing a 68k based Mac with a Pentium, your
compute bound applications are likely to run faster (if they run) on
the Pentium running Executor than they would on the 68k based Mac.
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>
>Executor is beyond a joke. Just read the list of non-supported 
features.
>Put simply, this is what you get:
>
>
>System 6
>No TrueType fonts (bitmapped only) 
>no control panels
>no inits
>DA support is flakey
>no appletalk
>no serial ports
>
>One real whiz bang program. What a joke. Imagine SoftWindows only being
>able to run Windows 1.0 programs, and thats about what you get with
>executor.
>
>-- 
>Talk about cheeze whiz!

	I happen to use Executor a lot, and have found almost all 
programs I use run very nicely on it (though Appletalk would be nice).
I would say it's far more than a joke, it's a very good, and getting 
better, program.

Joe


id of SoftWindows, but again, since each
emulates something different, it doesn't matter too much since you
can't directly replace Executor with SoftWindows, or vice-versa.

More information about Executor can be found in
comp.emulators.mac.executor, on on ARDI's WWW site:
http://www.ardi.com/.

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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