Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 13:07:59 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Is djgpp better? Yes!
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On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, George Foot wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Dec 1996 20:29:02 GMT, flyboy AT ari DOT net (Nathaniel Meo)
> wrote:
> 
> >Just take a look at the game Quake, it was designed on a UNIX system
> >and then ported to DOS using DJGPP. SO it shouldn't be too much of a
> >problem.
> 
> Are you sure? I thought Quake was written for Dos, using DJGPP, then
> ported to Linux later on.
> 
> George Foot
> 

to my knowledge, Quake was developed under IRIX (the SVR4 UNIX of Silicon
Graphics boxes) then ported to DOS using DJGPP later.. simply because SGI
boxes were the fastest they could get at the time (imagine doing lots of
compile/edit cycles and you'd be glad to have a fast machine..)

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