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sg928ah5@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (James Ianni) writes:

>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:


>: 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.

Don't hold your breath....read on...

>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, 

Executor isn't an "emulator" in the same sense that SoftWindows or 
ShapeShifter (or Emplant or Amax) are emulators. Executor is a "program
launcher". You _don't_ get to use the Mac's finder, or any of the
capabilities that MacOS buys you. You do get the capability to run a 
few pieces of Mac software, and not necessarily very reliably, from
my experience. 

Executor might make a few Linux users happy, in that they can point to
their box and say that it runs Mac applications (so why have a Mac), but
it is far from usable for day to day work. You are better off buying an
old Mac and networking it, or using a real platform emulation, like 
ShapeShifter or Emplant (and even these are dicey).

Sorry, but I wasted a lot of time with Executor. It's a neat hack, but
not of much use for productivity. Anyone who truly needs to run Photoshop
on their PC, would be better off simply buying Photoshop for the PC. If
you find that you can't get by with your current platform, emulation is
not going to be your long-term solution. Real application support is.

--hal

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