A note to anyone involved in the creation of Macintosh software,
past, present or future:

I hope that you've been able to see Executor/DOS 1.1 for yourself.
If you are a programmer, perhaps you can imagine the difficulty of
getting as far as we have with as few programmers as we have, but
we've done it.  Now, with your help, we can quintuple the market
for Macintosh software.  The following is a list of actions you may
want to undertake to help us help you.



DONATE SOFTWARE FOR TESTING

		If you have a PC, I hope you will try your software out under
		Executor/DOS 1.1 and let us know how it performs.  Additionally,
		if you could send us a copy of all of your Macintosh software,
		we'll add it to our test library so that future versions of Executor
		will run your software.  Please send software to:

	ARDI
	Suite 101
	1650 University Blvd., NE
	Albuquerque, NM  87102

	+1 505 766 9115 Phone
	+1 505 247 1899 FAX



BUNDLE EXECUTOR WITH YOUR SOFTWARE

		If you do not yet have a Windows or DOS version of your software,
		you may want to bundle Executor/DOS with the Mac version and
		sell the bundle to PC users.  We're very flexible.  Please
		contact Clifford Matthews if you're interested in bundling
		Executor/DOS with your software.

		Even if you have a Windows version, you may want to gain a foothold
		in the UNIX market by bundling Executor/X-Windows with your product.



ENCOURAGE HARDWARE MANUFACTURERS TO BUNDLE EXECUTOR

		We have very high goals for the level of compatibility provided by
		Executor/DOS 2.0.  Once Executor/DOS 2.0 is shipping, ARDI will try
		to get Macintosh compatibility to be a "checklist item" that users
		look for when they buy a PC or PC-clone.

		However, if you have contacts with PC manufacturers, it's not
		too early to encourage them to bundle Executor/DOS.  The license
		fees that we would charge any of the major PC manufacturers
		are exceedingly small, but even then the revenue generated
		would be enough to insure that we'd have sufficient engineers
		to keep pace with the latest developments.



PROVIDE A TECHNICAL LIASON

		If your applications don't currently run under Executor, it is
		likely that if our engineers talk to your engineers, resolution
		will be quick.  Our engineers are sufficiently swamped that
		you don't have to worry about them calling and chatting aimlessly
		with your engineers.  By the time we call, we've probably
		narrowed the problem down to a very small set of choices, and
		we might be alerting you to bugs that will only cause you
		unexpected grief down the road.



KEEP YOUR SOFTWARE CLEAN

		Please obey all the programatic interface guidelines specified
		by Apple.  Be extremely sure to use the Gestalt function to
		determine whether particular subsystems are present.  We will
		be supporting *some* parts of System 7 in Executor/DOS 2.0,
		but not all, so code that ignores Gestalt can cause us both
		problems.

		Be aware that flushing the instruction cache is *very*
		expensive under Executor.



CONTINUE TO RELEASE "68000" BASED VERSIONS OF YOUR SOFTWARE

		Executor/DOS 1.0 uses a "dynamically recompiling" synthetic
		CPU.  That, plus the fact that our OS/graphics code is running
		native, allows us to get very impressive results in comparison
		to other emulators.  However, currently we recompile to an
		interpretive code.  We are working on a new synthetic CPU that
		recompiles directly to native code, and it will be FAST.
		However, unless forced, we won't be doing an emulation of the
		PowerPC architecture (note I'm saying "of the", not "for the").
		So even if your software requires great tremendous CPU power,
		do not abandon the 68000, because our new synthetic 68000 will
		be exceedingly fast on the i486DX4s, Pentiums, Alphas, MIPS
		and HP chips.


Thank you for your help.

Best Regards
Clifford T. Matthews     ctm@ardi.com
Founder                  +1 505 766 9115 Phone
ARDI                     +1 505 247 1899 FAX
