From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT NO DOT SPAM DOT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Quake and DJGPP
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 07:48:27 +0000
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DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> Actually, the initial reason they decided on DJGPP was because they
> were going to use DJGPP instead of quakec, and they wanted a compiler
> they could distribute with the game itself.  In the end, they wrote
> quakec instead.

Trust DJ to deflate all of our wild speculations.  Turns out the reason
was strictly prosaic.  ;)

Of course, it's great to know that id really took the time to learn
about what was available instead of just picking a high-priced compiler
because for that much money it had to be good.  It means that there is
hope that, one day, commercial software companies may actually take off
their blinders...

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John M. Aldrich <fighteer AT cs DOT com>                      

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