My understand of the running "let's run doom on it" joke is that it is a functional proof of the concept that all computers are at some level the same and there is always a way to get a program that runs on one to run on another if some basic condition...
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My understand of the running "let's run doom on it" joke is that it is a functional proof of the concept that all computers are at some level the same and there is always a way to get a program that runs on one to run on another if some basic conditions are met (and if you really don't care about efficiency)
But... I just inferred this ... is that what it's really about?
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My understand of the running "let's run doom on it" joke is that it is a functional proof of the concept that all computers are at some level the same and there is always a way to get a program that runs on one to run on another if some basic conditions are met (and if you really don't care about efficiency)
But... I just inferred this ... is that what it's really about?
@futurebird
On one level, I guess it is.On other levels, half of it is "All these things are fundamentally toys", with the very strong but unspoken implication "to me, but not to you".
In a few cases it's "Oh look, unsecured processors!"; the point is the lack of security.
(Caveat: I was a tester, not a developer, so I am not speaking from the inside. My experience of developers is not particularly positive.)
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My understand of the running "let's run doom on it" joke is that it is a functional proof of the concept that all computers are at some level the same and there is always a way to get a program that runs on one to run on another if some basic conditions are met (and if you really don't care about efficiency)
But... I just inferred this ... is that what it's really about?
@futurebird I'd say you're exactly correct, with two little details that make Doom specifically interesting:
- Computers were 45 years old at the time Doom was completed. Running Doom shows you are not just Turing complete, but as powerful as a desktop computer from 1993.
- Doom is one of the most significant pieces of user-facing software to ever be open-sourced. As real commercial software it has more size and complexity than something designed as a tech demo, AND you have the source code.
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My understand of the running "let's run doom on it" joke is that it is a functional proof of the concept that all computers are at some level the same and there is always a way to get a program that runs on one to run on another if some basic conditions are met (and if you really don't care about efficiency)
But... I just inferred this ... is that what it's really about?
@futurebird you made me go down a rabbit hole. Doom was a tangential part of my 1990s life, when i was deep in the netart scene.
so basically yes, but to there’s a nuance to Doom. Doom was the first wildly successful commercial game to be open-sourced. the game was released in 1993 and by 1997 the Linux version was FLOSS. so it’s the most ported, expanded and re-developed game & game engine ever. that’s why you can “Doom” almost anything with a chip.
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