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  2. From: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
  4. Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old?
  5. Date: 16 Jan 1996 13:30:36 -0800
  6. Organization: UCSD Computer Science and Engineering Department
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  15. In-reply-to: amoreira@nine.com's message of Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:25:16 GMT
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  17.  
  18. amoreira@nine.com (Alberto C Moreira) writes:
  19. > With the added bonus: I can go to DOS and play a real fast and
  20. > challenging DOOM anytime I feel like.
  21.  
  22. DOOM runs just as fast on Linux as well (even when you have background
  23. jobs).  Granted, this is only because it's so popular that a port
  24. was made - you can't do this with descent or dark forces, etc.
  25. (although those do work with os2)  Point being, the OS doesn't
  26. prevent that sort of stuff either.  The thinking that you must have
  27. bare hardware access to do this sort of stuff is myth.
  28. -- 
  29. Darin Johnson
  30. djohnson@ucsd.edu
  31.     Where am I?  In the village...  What do you want?  Information...
  32.