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Is it fair to say “anything that can run Doom, eventually will run Doom”?
by ralmidani 5y ago
Is it fair to say “anything that can run Doom, eventually will run Doom”?
- dhosek 5y agoBack in the 80s/90s there were some questionable ports of TeX do unlikely hardware. Perhaps the most egregious of these was TeX running on a Cray supercomputer. Time on these machines was metered heavily. I can't imagine anyone actually used it for formatting papers. I had a dream of doing a hand port of TeX to 6502 assembly to see if I could get it running on a 128K Apple //e. I envisioned heavy use of bank switching to enable code to jump back and forth between the two 64KB banks which could only be switched in predefined blocks as I recall (the page 1/2 text/lores blocks, page 1/2 hires blocks, the high 16k and I think the low 48k that wasn't part of the lores/hires blocks but it's a long time since I played with that hardware.
- bombcar 5y ago128k seems at least in the same ballpark as the PDP-10 so it should be possible - especially if disk is available.
- peterburkimsher 5y agoAnother guy got Doom running on potatoes, so I'd say yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFDlVgBMomQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFDlVgBMomQ
- grecy 5y agoWhen I worked at the Department of Defence I got Quake III running on a monster SGI supercomputer that was somewhere around the $5mil mark.
- eloisius 5y agoAnd people talk about $500 hammers…
- NaturalPhallacy 5y agoThe navy has $100K keyboards. I've touched them with my own hands. And this was in 2004 money.