From: lonniem AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu (Lonnie McCullough)
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Subject: Re: Quake and Allegro
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 04:59:34 GMT
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On Sat, 24 May 1997 02:42:06 GMT, Plasmid125 AT aol DOT com wrote:

>C'mon! Why in the world would Carmack use allegro?! Carmack wrote all of his
>own functions from scratch!!  even the ones like "strcpy" and "printf"!!
>Well, I think if Carmack can do it better, then let him do what he wants!
> Abrash is a very dominant programmer who DOES NOT WORK FOR ID ANYMORE! He
>works for Microsoft now.
>
>~3D.Mug

No way.  Abrash left Microsoft to work for id because at Microsoft he
was doing more of a managerial thing.  Not coding as much as he wanted
to.  I don't think he would have gone back but if anyone has some hard
evidence one way or the other I'm sure we would all like to see it.



Lonnie McCullough
lonniem AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu