From: "Andrew R. Gillett" <arganoid AT fatal-design DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: c|net: Microsoft has officially killed MS-DOS.
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:15:57 +0100
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In comp.os.msdos.djgpp, Bernhard Stiftner wrote:
> After all, DOS apps are MUCH faster than Windows ones! Just
> look at some games, for example. DOS games are fast and
> stable and are achieving wonderful frame rates, even if
> they use 3D-engines. But nowadays directx/direct3d-games
> need 3d accelerator hardware to achieve satisfacting
> results (in contrast to those "old" DOS apps).

That's a bit daft - you can't directly compare, say, Quake 3 to Quake 1.


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