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nahender@plains.NoDak.edu (Nathanael J Henderson) writes:

>Clifford T. Matthews (ctm@ardi.com) wrote:

>: [Bias alert: I founded ARDI, the makers of Executor, mentioned below]

>: For $49, students can buy the Executor/DOS+Executor/Linux student
>: combination.  Executor/DOS will run under DOS, Windows '95, and OS/2
>: (and maybe Windows NT/Intel with the right switches).  Executor/Linux

>   What exactly is the market for this thing, anyway?  The point of 
>buying a Mac is much more than the software available--it's the great 
>interface and  some of the fastest hardware available. 

The interface is all there --- and running side by side with all your fav 
linux apps, too.
The speed is there, too --- sure, it won't beat a 9500, but on a speedy
PC, the thing is really impressive.

The market --- there are at least a few people out there who decided not
to run WordPerfect for SCO on their linux box, but rather Word for Mac,
and do all the WP work under executor.

>   I'm also quite skeptical of the speed you give ("twice as fast as a 
>25Mhz 040") since *Apple's* emulator doesn't come close to that on 
>equivilent hardware (to the 90 Mhz Pentium). 

Then go, get the demo for whatever OS you are running, and run your
own copy of speedometer. Or whatever you want. I did, and I am impressed.
Why don't you?

>   Not that I doubt such speeds can be obtained--just not running normal 
>programs.

About every speedtest I threw at the thing was consistent with the
given speed. Or a little faster, at that. I can't run giant Excel Macros
through it, because I don't own Excel for any platform, let alone MacOS.

Bernie
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