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- Hi Folks,
-
- Since I've been unable to keep up with personal e-mail, I'm trying to
- use this list to keep you abreast even between new releases from us.
-
- Here's a quick summary of what's up:
-
- 1.99a will not work on 386 based systems. We hope to have a fix
- soon.
-
- 1.99a hasn't yet been released in any form other than a
- transmogrified commercial version, because we had an important
- meeting to go to on Monday.
-
- The meeting was an informal talk with folks in the MAE (Macintosh
- Application Environment) group at Apple computer. We showed them
- what we had and discussed plans for ways in which we can work
- together. They were impressed by our new Speedometer numbers (a 75
- MHz DX4 486 gets comparable numbers to a 25 MHz 68040 based Mac).
- The meeting went well, that's about all I'll say now.
-
- Currently, different platforms and versions of Executor use slightly
- different system files. This makes things difficult for us when it's
- time to release a new version (especially, since we now support so
- many different versions). As such, I'm in the process of changing
- that right now. That's the last thing that holds back a release of
- 1.99a in the other forms, but since we added some new code for the
- Apple demo, most likely we'll roll the new code in and make the new
- release be 1.99b.
-
- Our new synthetic CPU speed is fast enough that if we were to take
- Apple ROMs and and Apple system file and drop them into our synthetic
- CPU with some "glue" to hold it all together, DX4 based systems (>=
- 75 MHz '486) would have Quadra (>= 25 MHz 68040) performance and have
- and exceedingly high degree of compatibility. We are now putting
- together a "dirty room team" plan so that in the future, you'll be
- able to buy a copy of System 7.x and drop it in on top of Executor
- and get a much higher degree of compatibility -- you can't do that
- now.
-
- I'll post more infomation after I've gotten demo versions of 1.99x
- Executor/DOS and Executor/Linux out and a copy of Executor/NEXTSTEP
- 1.99x out as well.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-