Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:30:35 -0400 (EDT)
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To:	*** Brett *** <bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP)
From:	Chirayu Krishnappa <chirayu AT radiolink DOT net>
Subject:	Re: How fast is DJGPP?

Hi,

>Bear in mind that iD dumped Watcom (in DooM) to use DJGPP in Quake, which is
>only meant to run on a Pentium. The only reason that they would do this is
>that DJGPP is better, I mean they'd already paid for Watcom, so they
>wouldn't care about DJGPP being free... and it isn't like the money would
>matter to them anymore anyway :)

Id dumped Watcom coz Quake was devoloped on a high end unix machine and
djgpp having maximum compatibility with it made porting easier. Thats the
only sw they used djgpp for. Thats coz they went to win32 and have the cash.
gcc is a v. popular compiler and djgpp too (its a port of gcc, see).

Bye,

Chirayu Krishnappa:
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