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Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004
(arstechnica.com)
Nice, now run Linux on a tube computer!
You've just given someone an idea. Next step: a Babbage difference engine.
My first job was building computers with old parts. A guy needed MS Word for work but didn’t want to buy a new computer or upgrade his 386SX (25Mhz iirc). It had like 20MB of disk and I don’t recall the RAM. So he asked me if I could try. So I did. I managed to install DOS, Windows 3.1 and MS Word. I don’t remember how long it took to boot, but I remember that it would take 6 seconds for a pressed letter to appear on the screen.
You forgot to press the turbo button!
I could probably shave a few seconds off that if it was written in assembly
if it was compiled then probably a few days
Now run Doom on it.
I feel like running doom is much less of a challenge
Doom barely ran on my Packard Bell 386
Doom has even been ported to 8088
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2024
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