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From: rushfan357 AT aol DOT com (RushFan357)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Why did ID choose DJGPP for Quake?
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Date: 27 Dec 1999 03:41:20 GMT
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I understand that they developed Quake on UNIX boxes(SGI's maybe) and needed a
good compiler to port the source to DOS. Since DJGPP is a DOS port of a UNIX
compiler it was what id used.


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