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11 Oct 2024 11:12:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: RIP Gary Gygax  
From: Warp
Date: 8 Mar 2008 15:12:08
Message: <47d2f318@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> - I never completed Doom.
> > 
> > Neither did I. Not without cheating anyway.
> > You did play it though, right?

> In a mannar of speaking, yes...

> [Ever tried to do software rendering on a 286? Hint: this belongs to the 
> class of operations that is "not fast".]

  I don't believe Doom even works in a 286. (Maybe a much later third-party
port, perhaps, but not the original one.)

> >> (And I have no idea which one is currently "winning".)
> > 
> > Bluray won.

> Uh... we have a winner already?

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1627196120080216

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                                                          - Warp


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