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How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack (fabiensanglard.net)
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[–] who@feddit.org 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It is impressive to see Quake run at full speed knowing that Windows 95 runs DOS executable in a virtual machine.

To be clear, I don't think it was a virtual machine in the modern hypervisor sense (as the term often implies today), nor in the bytecode interpreter sense (à la Java).