Re:Show HN: My website, hosted on a 386 25 MHz, 4 MiB of RAM...
by nine_k on Sunday April 17, 2022 @01:10AM
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The original Doom, yes. Even though it was barely playable on a 386 25 MHz.
The original Quake was barely playable on a 486 DX4 100 MHz, and was fine on a Pentium.
Re:Show HN: My website, hosted on a 386 25 MHz, 4 MiB of RAM...
by anthk on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @07:25PM
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The FastDoom port slims down some floor textures and such and makes Doom playable (and not stamp sized) on a 386.
About the 386, you could run SICP as a GNU Info file blazingly fast and a Scheme compiler on another TTY, or under GNU Screen. You could typeset with Groff and Mom, too.
Now try running LaTeX on that. Yes, Donald Knuth is the Ur-creator on CS and typesetting, but hey, sometimes you don't need a full 3GB Texlive suite to typeset some book or math equation notebook.
Perhaps the same kind of people who got GCC to compile for 386 DOS machines (also using DPMI). Which might sound useless, since it's an underpowered operating system running on underpowered hardware, but it was used to build some very popular software, like the original Quake game (source: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html).