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>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Halverson <halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu> writes:
In article <44uc3m$e5m@epx.cis.umn.edu> Jeff Halverson <halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu> writes:


    Jeff> nahender@plains.NoDak.edu (Nathanael J Henderson) wrote:
    >> Bernd "Bernie" Meyer (root@wombat.hanse.de) wrote:
    >> 
    >> : The interface is all there --- and running side by side with
    >> all your fav : linux apps, too.
    >> 
    >> The sys 7/7.5 Finder?  Also, does it support Mac extensions
    >> like quicktime, etc.?

    Jeff> The emulator is not quite up to that yet.

Right.  I mentioned many of the limitations in another post, so I
won't go into them here, but our FAQ
(ftp://ftp.ardi.com/pub/executor-faq.ascii) and WWW pages
(http://www.ardi.com) are up front about Executor's current limitations.

    Jeff> The guys & gals
    Jeff> at ARDI have put 8 years of thier lives into this project,

I've actually been at it 9 years, Bill Goldman has been with us off
and on for 6 years and the rest for 3 or fewer years.

    Jeff> ...
    Jeff> and we have even heard rumors that they may be able
    Jeff> to have an option of "dropping in" an actual Mac-OS (system
    Jeff> 7.5, or even copeland when it arrives) for 100%
    Jeff> compatibility.

Nobody, not even Apple themselves, get 100% compatibility.  We always
word it as something like "significantly greater compatibility".  Yes,
the ability to drop in System 7.x and later System 8 is indeed a goal
for future versions of Executor.  It's not a rumor that it's our goal,
but it *is* only vapor for now.

    Jeff> Another great thing about the guys & gals at
    Jeff> ARDI is they will make the Desktop source code available so
    Jeff> that you can modify it to do whatever the hell you want!  So
    Jeff> if they are sucessful, your Executor will be more
    Jeff> customizable that your System7.x/System 8.x!!!

Yes, we will be making the source code to our Browser publicly
available and I think that's a good thing, but I wouldn't go quite so
far as to call it a great thing; our Browser is still in its infancy,
so there are many missing features people would like.

    Jeff> Now if only we could get them to port it to the DEC 275Mhz
    Jeff> machine, then we'd have the fastest mac on earth!

DEC was gracious enough to loan us an Alpha a couple years ago and we
actually got Executor 1.0 limping on that machine, but unfortunately,
Mat Hostetter, our synthetic CPU guru was still getting his Masters at
MIT, and wasn't in Albuquerque during the period when we had the
Alpha, so the port never went anywhere.  However, we already have
hooks in place to deal with the 64-bit pointers that are present on
the Alpha, so porting back to the Alpha in the future will be easier.

    Jeff> Jeff Halverson

--Cliff
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