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Date:      Wed, 28 Feb 1996 12:34:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      bmk@dtr.com
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com, sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Quake's out, where's that Linux ELF emulation?
Message-ID:  <199602282034.MAA01666@dtr.com>
In-Reply-To: <2596.825529991@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 28, 96 09:53:11 am

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> > Fine , arrange it . I like to go "down" fighting not standing down.

> Well, that's generally an admirable strategy for charging up San Juan
> hill (if you're Teddy Rosevelt, anyway) but I don't think that it's
> going to buy us anything with ID.  I will, nonetheless, send a message
> to Dave Taylor asking him to publically clarify their position on
> Quake in this newsgroup.

> In the meantime, I think the strategy most likely to get positive
> results is to get folks to hack on the ELF emulation.  The NetBSD camp
> certainly seems to be getting good results with that, and I wouldn't
> even be surprised to hear they got sound working at some point soon.
> They've been ahead in the emulation arena for some time now, and if we
> should be feeling bad about anything, it's that.

Agreed.

> > If they don't make port for FreeBSD can you remove the stuff from 
> > the ftp.cdrom.com site. This is my thinking they are so in love with

[snip]

Anybody that thinks this has even a snowball's chance in hell of doing
anything constructive, I direct your attention to ftp.idsoftware.com.

They already mirror (what appears to be) all of ftp.cdrom.com's
id-related stuff.




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