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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