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>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Nisshagen <d4nisse@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:
In article <308C0278.5662@dtek.chalmers.se> Martin Nisshagen <d4nisse@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:


    Martin> Clifford, T., Matthews, <ctm@ardi.com> wrote:
    >> It depends on what your day to day work is.  Executor running
    >> compute intensive programs *if they work*, on a 90 MHz Pentium
    >> will run about 60% faster than they would on a 25 MHz 68040
    >> base Mac.  At ARDI we wrote a 100 page manual running Microsoft
    >> Word for the Macintosh under Executor (Microsoft Word is not
    >> available for Linux).  Our customers have other uses for
    >> Executor.

    Martin> Wouldn't it make much more sense for Linux users to devlop
    Martin> some Windows emulation and simply run Word for Windows
    Martin> instead? That way You only have to emulate the API:s, but
    Martin> not the CPU (if You run Linux x86).

It depends on what your day to day work is.  If it's running Word,
Word for the Macintosh under Executor under Linux is probably a worse
solution than Word for Windows under an emulator under Linux which is
probably (if your day to day work is running Word) a worse solution
than just running Windows '95 and running Word.

However, there are still many pieces of software written for the Mac
that aren't available elsewhere (HyperCard, NIH Image, Space Madness).
If your day to day work includes running these, then a non-Mac
emulator won't help you at all.

There are also cases in between, such as our case, where we used the
Macintosh version of Word.  It did what we needed to do and we didn't
have a Windows version, and in fact, the system on which we wrote the
manual was a NeXTstation which couldn't run Windows anyway.

I'm not telling people that they must run Executor or even that an
Executor based solution is inherently the best solution.  I'm only
saying it's out there and you can pick up a demo of it and decide
whether or not it's useful to you.  We're not a hard-sell company.

    Martin> m a r t i n n

    Martin> -- Martin Nisshagen mts@cd.chalmers.se (MIME 1.0)
    Martin> http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~mts/martin

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com