Sat 2003-01-18 10:32, Mike Tripp (1:382/61) wrote to Bob Jones:

 > A DOS32 port would work provided the extender support equals that of 
 > Squish. My guess is that there is a reason (beyond laziness) that Scott 
 > did DOS32 Squish, but no MAX386 (or MAX386P for that matter).  The only 
 > thing I recall him publicly stating was that there would be no point 
 > due to the amount blocking and thunking present during device I/O, and 
 > that performance might actually be degraded.  Sounded more like 
 > hypothesis than experience at the time he said it, though.

Did you ever play multiplayer Doom via a null modem cable?  Doom used
DOS4GW (Rational Systems' 32-bit DOS extender that came with Watcom C), ie.
the same one Scott used for the 32-bit DOS version of Squish.  I don't
recall there ever being any performance issues with Doom relating to serial
comms.  And if there were performance issues with comms, they would most
likely exist in Win9x (which is essentially a DOS extender) also.

Either way, this is all hypothesis, also.  ;-)

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