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From: risner@stdio.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running Quake on FreeBSD, HELP!
Date: 10 Jun 1997 09:17:02 -0400
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Benjamin Lim <fade@earthling.net> wrote:
> freeBSD would be fantastic. It wouldn't be just a workstation or server,
> huh? I mean come on! Even neXtstep has quake and it has less users then
> freebsd...

NeXTStep has quake for a reason.
Doom was originally written under NeXTStep and ported to everything else.
I imagine they may still have development tools written for NeXTStep and
the quake just may have been native to NeXTStep.

Risner