From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: [Severely OT] Re: An updated DOS - Please discuss
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:39:36 -0700
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Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu> wrote in message
> news:37DD58FE DOT 54640A0E AT hmc DOT edu...
> > Besides, most of the config files on Unix are for daemons that don't
> > even exist on DOS.  Drop those, and things will be much simpler
> > (though perhaps useless).
> 
> Don't daemons exist on DOS, in the game DOSDoom, which
> was made with DJGPP?
> 
> < No, those are demons. No 'a'.
> 
> I knew that.

Actually, look at DOOM loading sometime.

R_Init: Init DOOM refresh daemon - [...................]

I've often wondered how that was meant.  Perhaps DOOM had multiple
threads and its own scheduler??

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Nate Eldredge
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