Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004

Comments

• argh_another_username@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

  source

  • criticon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You forgot to press the turbo button!

    source

    • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Now it takes 12 second for a single character to appear on the screen.

      (Pressing Turbo button actually slowed down the CPU AFAIK).

      source

      • -> View More Comments
  • Toes@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

    source

    • bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Or Works

      Happy Cake Day

      source

      • -> View More Comments
• menixator@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Now run Doom on it.

  source

  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I feel like running doom is much less of a challenge

    source

    • bahbah23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Doom barely ran on my Packard Bell 386

      source

      • -> View More Comments
• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nice, now run Linux on a tube computer!

  source

  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

    source