Anyone know what machine he was using? I guess it was some SGI machine but it didn't say the exact model.
QuakeEd on NeXTSTEP: http://rome.ro/uploaded_images/qe_dev-726646.gif
The environment does look like Visual C of which 1.0 came out somewhere in the 94-95 time-frame if I'm remembering it correctly, though it might have been just a tad earlier.
This machine would be running WinNT 3 or 4, most definitely not the MIPS build.