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From: Sahab Yazdani <sahaby AT operamail DOT com>
Organization: PheonixSoft Interactive
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Subject: how did Quake do it???
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:34:04 -0500
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okay, I'm wondering, how did the original Quake manage to make 
networking under DOS work???  i know it opened up some kind of portal 
into Windows and then used that as its transport, but HOW???? anybody 
know, care to tell the rest of us????
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