VMS port? (was Re: little tidbits of QUAKE info from Jay)

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From: 01jbk... Blue canary in the outl...
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 19:12

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In article <3i0ofp$t...@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>, dhol...@sunlab.cit.cornell.edu (David Hollman) writes:
> 
> : Only the client will run on a 486 class (or other) machine. : The server
> can run on anything.  Even a Sparc. 
> Hopefully they will release the client for otehr systems as well. A 
> PowerMac could probably run it satisfactorily. It is too bad that all 
> those Mac users are missing out on Doom and related games. I have tried 
> marathon, and it is no Doom. The Wolf 3D port was much better.
> 
> David
> 

How about a VAX/VMS or Alpha/VMS port of Quake and/or Doom?

-- 
John Kramer
VMS Systems Programmer/Systech, Ball State University Computing Services
01jbk...@bsuvc.bsu.edu, yo...@ceres.bsuvc.bsu.edu

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Subject: VMS port? (was Re: little tidbits of QUAKE info from Jay)
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