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From: rls@zeus.id.net (Robert Shady)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: DOOM for X
Date: 3 Mar 1994 07:11:42 -0500
Organization: Innovative Data Services
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[A bunch removed for brievity]
>>More like is less of a port issue from their NextStep development environment.
>>Probably their biggest headache should be the linux sound driver;simply,
>>because they don't have one under nextstep -- the rest should be a simple
>>exercise for them.
> Am I missing something here? Last time I looked, NextStep was
>completely different than X11. It would seem to me that because they
>got something working under NextStep does not mean that doing the same
>thing under X11 is possible. I am, frankly, a bit dubious about this
>port of DOOM to Linux (at least one that does not like mmap() the video
>card or something).
Even the DOS version was developed in their NextStep environment. You can
develop alot of things on platforms which they aren't necessarily going to
run...
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