How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

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who@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

It is impressive to see Quake run at full speed knowing that Windows 95 runs DOS executable in a virtual machine.

To be clear, I don’t think it wasn’t a virtual machine in the modern hypervisor sense (as the term often implies today), nor in the bytecode interpreter sense (à la Java).

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