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On Mon, 23 Oct 1995, Martin Nisshagen wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Wouldn't it make much more sense for Linux users to devlop some Windows
> emulation and simply run Word for Windows instead? That way You only
> have to emulate the API:s, but not the CPU (if You run Linux x86).
> 
> m a r t i n  n
> 
> -- 
> Martin Nisshagen
> mts@cd.chalmers.se (MIME 1.0)
> http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~mts/martin
> 
> 

Indeed, this would certainly be a better solution.  ARDI has to emulate the
Motorolla CPU.  But thier point is not to provide commercial software
specifically to Linux.  --Of course, this is an extra plus. (^.^)
They have developed a highly portable CPU emulation, and it is their hope 
that you will be able to run your favorite Mac application on _ANY_ 
machine you may own.  There are some specific softwares that are 
available only on a macintosh (honest, I'm not kidding) and some of us 
would like to run them seamlessly along with the applications that are 
only available under windows, os/2 and Linux.

If you are only interested in running Word in Linux, I'd suggest you 
contribute to the WINE project, which should bet better emulation 
performance---but this is because WINE in not really an emulator, its an 
API!

I really think both projects are some of the neatest projects around!

Jeff Halverson