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Clifford T. Matthews (ctm@ardi.com) wrote:
: >>>>> "James" == James Ianni <sg928ah5@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu> writes:
: In article <449qno$nf0@noc2.drexel.edu> sg928ah5@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (James Ianni) writes:


:     James> Bernd "Bernie" Meyer (root@wombat.hanse.de) wrote: : About
:     James> every speedtest I threw at the thing was consistent with
:     James> the : given speed. Or a little faster, at that. I can't run
:     James> giant Excel Macros : through it, because I don't own Excel
:     James> for any platform, let alone MacOS.

:     James> How is it with MS Powerpoint? Photoshop? or any graphic
:     James> intensive program?  How COMPATIBLE is it? I don't want the
:     James> thing to crash on me in the middle of a long document....

: Right now, while it's in pre-beta, we encourage people who are
: considering the immediate purchase of Executor to pick up our demo
: (ftp://ftp.ardi.com/pub/executor-faq.ascii tells you where you can get
: it, as does http://www.ardi.com) and try it for yourself, since new
: experimental pre-beta versions are released fairly frequently.  For
: others we suggest waiting until 2.0 is at least in beta (hopefully at
: the end of October) or until 2.0 is shipping (mid December).

: The most recent versions of the Microsoft products (Word 6, Excel 5,
: PowerPoint 4) do not run under Executor because they need
: multi-tasking in order to support OLE.  Since you do not have the
: option of running these programs without OLE enabled, you just can't
: run them.  We use Word 5 and Excel 4 in house and know of some people
: using PowerPoint 3 under Executor, but we don't have PP3 for our own
: testing, so it's hard for us to evaluate how well it works.

: We used Word 5 under Executor to write a 100 page manual.  Executor
: did crash twice while running Word 5 under Executor as we wrote the
: manual, *but* when we took the manual to a graphics shop and loaded it
: on their machine and went to make changes, there were a few times that
: their Mac died and this was in the course of a couple of hours.  My
: conclusion was that the Mac version of Word just didn't work
: particularly well on large files with relatively limited memory (the
: Mac at the printshop had less memory available than the machines we
: were using Executor under).

: Photoshop is only now just starting to limp.  We will be doing
: extensive bug fixing aimed at getting Photoshop 3 to run well,
: starting the 8th of October.

: In general, most programs either die fairly early on (because we don't
: support some feature that they need) or work correctly the entire time
: you use them.  We've had reports that the game "Civlization" dies at
: random times, but we fixed some bugs that it may have been running
: into and apparently there is a newer version of Civilization that
: seems to run fairly well.

: More information is available in the FAQ mentioned above.

: Thanks for your interest.

: --Cliff
: ctm@ardi.com

I would like to purchase it, but until you can run it more reliabley I'm 
going to stick with AMAX-II which is very, very stable, I forget that I'm 
working on an Amiga!!! I believe WORD is reliable and shouldn't crash, 
I've written 50 page proposals with dozens of equations and figures with 
no trouble on a 10 meg Mac..errr...I mean Amiga2000. and I had the 
Expressionist running with Endote Plus, and Excel and MacDraw Pro!!