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Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004 (arstechnica.com)

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[-] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 57 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 36 points 3 weeks ago

You forgot to press the turbo button!

[-] Toes@ani.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

If you had used the dos version of word it should have been fine

[-] bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Or Works

Happy Cake Day

[-] Toes@ani.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Happy Cake Day

Oh cool! I didn't notice

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 33 points 3 weeks ago

I could probably shave a few seconds off that if it was written in assembly

if it was compiled then probably a few days

[-] menixator@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 weeks ago

Now run Doom on it.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 18 points 3 weeks ago

I feel like running doom is much less of a challenge

[-] bahbah23@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Doom barely ran on my Packard Bell 386

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 8 points 3 weeks ago

Doom has even been ported to 8088

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago

If we have a discover aliens the first thing we're going to do if they have computers is try and run Doom on it.

[-] bamboo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

And likewise the aliens will want to get ahold of our computers where they will try porting an alternate version of doom where you play as an alien shooting humans.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

Nice, now run Linux on a tube computer!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

You've just given someone an idea. Next step: a Babbage difference engine.

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