Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 22:15:04 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199708190215.WAA17192@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <199708170030.KAA06165@rabble.uow.edu.au> (message from *** Brett
	*** on Sun, 17 Aug 1997 10:30:14 +1000 (EST))
Subject: Re: How fast is DJGPP?
Precedence: bulk


> Bear in mind that iD dumped Watcom (in DooM) to use DJGPP in Quake, which is
> only meant to run on a Pentium. The only reason that they would do this is
> that DJGPP is better,

No, they originally intended to distribute DJGPP as part of the add-on
kit, until they decided to write QuakeC instead.  They couldn't do
that with any other compiler.

During the development of quake, both id and djgpp benefited from the
cooperation of our teams - both Quake and DJGPP became much faster and
stable during that time, since all the experts were available to each
other to work on improving them both.