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Quake? That's your reference point? That game came out in the 90s. My Samsung washing machine could probably run that.
by kthartic 7y ago
Quake? That's your reference point? That game came out in the 90s. My Samsung washing machine could probably run that.
- reikonomusha 7y agoYour Samsung washing machine probably runs Linux though. Can you run it on a non-UNIXy OS? It’s amazing that this OS also has its own compiler and runtime capable of running Quake translated into Lisp.
- chapium 7y agoI don't know about you, but I rewrite all of my appliance firmware in chicken scheme.
- z3phyr 7y agoThat's basically C though ;)
- theamk 7y agoI don't think it runs Linux, there is tons of embedded OS's. It could be Nuclus, RIOS OS, or most likely, some sort of proprietary OS which was shipped with specific MCU they are using. OS writing is pretty simple, as long as you do not need a ton of device drivers and networking. There are over two dozen of them listed there: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Embedded_Systems/Common_RTOS https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Embedded_Systems/Common_RTOS and that is not a complete list.
- luxuryballs 7y agoBetter virus check that thing.
- kjs3 7y agoMy Samsung washing machine runs on (I believe) an mc6800 variant (not mc68000). It's admittedly not a surf-the-net/watch-tv-while-you-watch version, so no Quake, but on the upside, no viruses.