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Date:      Thu, 29 Feb 1996 03:14:45 -0500
From:      Wilson MacGyver <macgyver@infinet.com>
To:        bmk@dtr.com
Cc:        David Langford <langfod@dihelix.com>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Quake's out, where's that Linux ELF emulation?
Message-ID:  <31356075.620B@cylatech.com>
References:  <199602281452.GAA02277@dtr.com>

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bmk@dtr.com wrote:
> 
> > Just being curious, but why was the SGI port of doom done?
> > No complaint on that- it gives me something to do with ours :)
> 
> Doom wasn't ported to SGI.  iD uses SGI as theier primary development
> platform and ported it to run under DOS.

No, it was a port. Doom's engine was developed on a NeXT cube. The same
cube is still used to develope the Quake Engine. For the Quake, they also
have an Alpha running Digital Unix to pre-compute the BSP trees, and
two SGIs to to the animations.

-- 
Wilson MacGyver   macgyver@cylatech.com
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Veni, Vidi, Concidi.



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