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.
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.