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Re: Demo Functionality



I am not sure if the original message I had sent made it.

First off:  I work at an Egghead software locally.  I have come accross at
least a dozen people who need the functionality of E/DOS mostly.  (Only 2
people have ever come in wanting anything to do with Linux, which is
placed *Slackware 3* poorly (?) in CD-ROM reference).  Anyway, getting
back to the point, I have told them where to get the E/DOS demos.
Hopefully it met there needs and they bought it.

If ARDI were to pursue getting Executor into the retail market, they could
make a killing.  We have demo machines that we run software on, and
because of this, it results in many more sales.  Customers like to see the
product before they buy it.  The problems with the potential plans (at
least the way I understand them), of not allowing people to DL a demo is
that they can't see the potential that E/DOS has.  Even if its limited to
ten minutes, a fully functional demo helps alot.  (You can leave off the
disk writes/formatting.)  The other problem is that E/DOS is in internet
terms on a 28800 modem, a huge program.  2.8 megs at 28800 at OPTIMAL
conditions takes a long time.

I guess the point is that E/DOS could sell a whole lot more if it were in
a commercialized retail environment.  I think one of the things that also
kinda throws people off (I know it does me), is that you can't see it in a
store, so you get a sense that possibly something is fishy.

I URGE you to talk to Eggheag corporate (or any retailler, preferably
Eggheag), and get E/DOS in the stores.  As it stands, we can't even
special order it for customers, if they want it.

I did toy with Executor for a while (have such little time), and Photoshop
seems to work.  No more disk IO error.  It loads graphics (JPEG) from a
DOS partition.  (I have a licensed Windows version).  It displays them.  I
do have to say though, DO NOT run PhotoShop on a 486 66 with 8 megs of RAM
allocated to the application zone.

Did not look at Illustrator yet.  I will DL the newest beta sometime (too
big), and let you know.

Bill Miller
wjm@wwa.com
w-miller@flamingo.district125.k12.il.us



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