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Subject:	Re: The numer 1 compiler, DJGPP or MSVC Here's a good rating comparision
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>> Well, if you're going to be pedantic, WinNT, Win95, WinCE are 3 different
>> OSs...
>
>Never mind, this is a minor point.  (Which OS is just a matter of 
>libraries, not of generated code!!!)

Yeah, that'll work. I'll just go download a Turbo C comms lib and use it on my 
linux GCC. You just keep at it, champ!

>
>Herman's point is that DJGPP and Watcom is great and VC++ sucks 
>so much that it takes a pentium 133 to equal the performance of 
>watcom on a 486!!  I think reason tells us he's wrong.  

What reason would that be? The same that led you into believing its all a 
matter of libraries not code generated in portability. 

>Russ, you say that Quake II is made with VC++.  Given that we 
>both know ID has use Watcom and could use it very well for OpenGL 
>programming, then Herman must be saying that ID Software people 
>are idiots.  Hey, maybe GLQuake could run on a 386 if it used 
>Watcom? 8-)
>

Who ever said QUAKE II is going to be released in MSVC? 
I tire of you.

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