Comment by tombert
4 hours ago
Gotta admit that it didn't occur to me that "can it run DOOM?" would stretch all the way to DNS.
At this point I am wondering if people will somehow port DOOM over to the MONIAC.
4 hours ago
Gotta admit that it didn't occur to me that "can it run DOOM?" would stretch all the way to DNS.
At this point I am wondering if people will somehow port DOOM over to the MONIAC.
You were right to assume that in this case. DNS is not running doom here, it's just storing it.
That's fair. I guess "can it store DOOM?" is still an interesting question though.
Is it? DNS has an explicit mechanism for storing data.
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Which is more ambitious, targeting the MONIAC platform or ENIAC?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine (MONIAC)
I'd say both are looking increasingly doable.
“Run” is doing a lot of heavy lifting at this point.
I remember the pregnancy test Doom. Wasn't it "running" on the display only?
Yes, I think it was, but that was also b/c, IIRC, the pregnancy tester had a CPU, too. A CPU can actually run things.
DNS … cannot, and that's why the person upthread is criticizing the use of the word "run" here. DNS ran nothing.
Coming up: playing doom on Ping-as-Storage