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- 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
-
-