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Few flames on this group (was Re: Anyone gotten A-10 or F-18 ...)



>>>>> "ChessMan" == ChessMan  <chessman@voicenet.com> writes:
In article <4ec40s$cft@news.voicenet.com> chessman@voicenet.com (ChessMan) writes:

    ChessMan> Sorry, I didn't realize how negative my post sounded
    ChessMan> until i read it again.  I'm still amazed at the
    ChessMan> Speedometer results running on a 90 mhz Pentium - and
    ChessMan> the speed for a chess program running in emulation is
    ChessMan> pretty amazing too.  It wasn't too many years ago that
    ChessMan> the speed were talking about in emulation was considered
    ChessMan> BLAZING for a MAC.  Keep up the good work folks!

I am very happy that the vast majority of people contributing to
comp.mac.emulators.misc are aware that Executor is a product that is
easily misunderstood, and as such, very few people take what may
appear to be negative comments personally.

Because Executor doesn't yet run everything, it is tricky to mention
it briefly without either listing so many limitations that it sounds
like Executor is totally useless, or without listing too few
limitations and having someone be disappointed when they find out it is
missing a major feature, like QuickTime, for example.

The question "Executor isn't useful for me, so what *is* it useful
for" comes up often and on any other newsgroup could easily be
mistaken as a personal attack and rapidly escalate into a flame war.
I'm quite glad to see that this doesn't happen here, nor does the
opposite: "Executor does everything that I want to do, therefore it's
the perfect solution for everyone".

Thank you ChessMan and all the other players for keeping up high
signal-to-noise and hospitality-to-thoughtlessness ratios.  We
(meaning Melissa -- she's *that* good) will also be working on getting
a mini-FAQ regularly posted which will also help keep everyone
cordial, since it will allow the incredibly frequently asked questions
to be answered automatically.

Again, thanks.

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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