From: Michael.Witbrock@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Another NON ROM macintosh emulator
Date: 4 Oct 92 09:44:23 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Originally From: "Clifford T. Matthews" <ctm@ardi.com>
Subject: Executor 1.2.1 now available

For more information:

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ABACUS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCES NEW NeXTSTEP VERSION OF
             EXECUTOR(tm), THEIR MACINTOSH(r) EMULATOR
	     
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, September 28, 1992 - Abacus R&D, Inc. (ARDI)
began shipping copies of Executor 1.2.1 today.

Executor is an application that allows programs originally written on
a Macintosh to run on a non-Macintosh.  Currently Executor is
available for NeXT computers only.  Executor is FAST: On a 25 MHz
NeXTstation, Executor calculates twenty-six times faster than a
Macintosh Classic and can perform graphics up to ten times as fast as
a Macintosh Classic.

Executor 1.2.1 allows Excel 4.0 to run, an application that didn't run
under Executor 1.2.  In addition, two bugs that affect NeXTSTEP 3.0
users have been fixed.  Executor 1.2.1 is able to run more
applications than Executor 1.2 was able to.  Some of the programs that
run very well under Executor include:

	Word 4, Word 5, Excel 3, Excel 4, Quicken 3.0,
	Managing Your Money 4.0, Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego
	and SimAnt.
	
Applications that haven't been tested as thoroughly and may have
Quirks include:

	Crystal Quest 2.20Z, CricketGraph 1.3.2, FileMaker Pro 1.0v2,
	Fontographer 3.5, MacInTax 1992 9.01, MacPaint 2.0,
	MacProject II 2.5v1, MacWrite II 1.1v1, MacMoney V3.52
	and Resolve
	
Showing promise, but not useable in Executor 1.2.1 are:

	ClarisCAD, HyperCard, MacDraw II, MacDraw Pro, PageMaker
	and Quark XPress

Executor 1.2.1 has a suggested retail price of $360 and a suggested
retail educational price of $180.  Both educational and
non-educational purchasers of Executor 1.2.1 will receive automatic
free updates until October 1, 1993.  Executor 1.2.1 is the first
version of Executor that is available from a variety of NeXT dealers
as well as from ARDI itself.  It is also the first version of Executor
to come with a three ring manual and slipcase.

Current Executor owners will automatically be sent a free update to
1.2.1.
	
Executor 1.3 is due out in December.  It will run even more
applications and is being ported to a variety of non Motorola 680x0
platforms.

Since day one, industry watchers have been divided over whether Apple
would try to shut ARDI down.  However, founder and President Clifford
T. Matthews stresses that all development has been done using strictly
clean room techniques; no amount of the Macintosh ROMs or Macintosh
System File has been disassembled.  Executor doesn't tamper with the
look and feel of the programs that run under it.  Mr. Matthews
compares it to colorized movies: "Sure, Executor could alter the user
interface of a given program, but that's not what the designers of the
program intended originally."  Still, some people are taken back by
ARDI's full page ad in the Winter issue of NeXTWORLD that alludes to
the Macintosh as "an inferior platform."  Mr. Matthews explains:
"There's really nothing shocking there; the Macintosh *is* an inferior
platform; Apple's never ending headaches with System 7 and their heavy
investment in Pink show that they know it as well as everyone else
does."

A publicly distributable crippled version of Executor, Executor-DEMO4
is available via anonymous ftp in the following places:

	unmvax.cs.unm.edu:pub/ardi/DEMO/Executor-DEMO4.tar
	nova.cc.purdue.edu:pub/next/submissions/Executor-DEMO4.tar
	cs.orst.edu:pub/next/submissions/Executor-DEMO4.tar

ARDI is a privately held Delaware Corporation with primary offices in
Albuquerque, New Mexico.  ARDI was incorporated in 1989 with the
mandate to further develop and market the Macintosh compatibility
software begun by founder Clifford T. Matthews in 1986.  In December
of 1991, ARDI was the first company to release a binary Macintosh
compatible product that did not require any software from Apple
Computer, Inc.

Executor is a trademark of Abacus Research and Development, Inc.
Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.