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quick status report



Hi Folks,

As you know, there hasn't been a new experimental version of  
Executor/DOS or Executor/NEXTSTEP in a few weeks.  Part of the reason  
for that is due to the fact that we've found a few filesystem and  
memory manager bugs/conflicts and we want to get all the ones that we  
know of fixed before we release a new version.  However, that  
shouldn't have taken us this long.

What else has happened is we've had two separate disk drives fail,  
and we've had a bunch of new equipment arrive, and I'm the person  
that sets up new equipment.  If that weren't enough, I was feeling a  
little feverish and generically uncomfortable for a couple days, when  
Sunday morning I wound up passing a kidney stone.  This was not a fun  
experience, and I've been mostly bed-ridden for most of the week up  
until now.  As far as I know, I'm better, but I haven't yet had my  
follow-up appointment, so I don't know what to expect.

However, ARDI is not a one man show, and work has been proceeding  
nicely on color, on our Finder replacement and on the Executor  
brochures and press-kits.  Unfortunately, we had to let our manual  
editor go, so that is being held up for a little while now.

I can't guarantee when Executor/DOS 1.2d will get out, but I'm up to  
working full-time days again and should soon be back to my normal  
beyond-full-time days.  As soon as 1.2d is out, we'll start hiring  
testers to pound on this stuff around the clock, on a variety of  
machines under a variety of operating systems.  2.0 still won't be  
ready for beta (we have to merge in the color stuff and finish a few  
more features like sound and serial port), but we are making steady  
progress, and our luck is bound to get better.

BTW, it's always good to use "questions@ardi.com" instead of mailing  
directly to me, because when I'm unavailable, my personal e-mail  
backs up something fierce, but questions@ardi.com is always kept at a  
managable level by Vaune.

	--Cliff