misk@piefed.social to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 8 months agoHow quake.exe got its TCP/IP stackfabiensanglard.netexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down11 cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up123arrow-down1external-linkHow quake.exe got its TCP/IP stackfabiensanglard.netmisk@piefed.social to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square2linkfedilink cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squarewho@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-28 months ago It is impressive to see Quake run at full speed knowing that Windows 95 runs DOS executable in a virtual machine. I don’t think it was a virtual machine in the hypervisor sense (as the term often implies today), nor in the bytecode interpreter sense (à la Java).
I don’t think it was a virtual machine in the hypervisor sense (as the term often implies today), nor in the bytecode interpreter sense (à la Java).