Doom was all CPU, but it ran on a 386 at a pinch. You could probably simulate a 386 at the transistor level on this beast and run doom on there.
Posts by Geoff Johnson
235 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Apr 2007
Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs
Intel to rebrand client chips once Meteor Lake splashes down
UK politico proposes site for prototype nuclear fusion plant
Xiaomi what's inside: Wow, teardown nerds find debut smartwatch isn't actually a solder-and-resin nightmare
NASA 'nauts do what flagship smartphone fans can only dream of: Change the batteries
I am just a mapper: Solar drones take to the skies above Blighty
NASA has Mars InSight as latest lander due to arrive today
Elon Musk invents bus stop, waits for applause, internet LOLs
Terry Pratchett's unfinished works flattened by steamroller
Four techies flummoxed for hours by flickering 'E' on monitor
Apple frees a few private APIs, makes them public
Ever visited a land now under Islamic State rule? And you want to see America? Hand over that Facebook, Twitter, pal
Royal Horticultural Society's PC is rooted for all to see
OK Google, Alexa, why can't I choose my own safe, er, wake word?
Blighty's telly, radio watchdog Ofcom does a swear
It all changes at time goes by.
I remember Ade Edmundson getting in trouble for saying fart on Wogan. A few years (ok, maybe decades) later and Saturday morning kids telly were doing a sketch called fart attack.
Give it a few decades more and kids TV will be saying fuck, while some currently innocent words will be banned instead.
Elon Musk: I'm gonna turn Mars into a $10bn death-dealing interplanetary gas station
Orbital tourism.
No mention of taking groups of people for a week in orbit. If he can get people to Mars for 200k, he should be able to manage that for a reasonable price. Currently people pay tens of millions for a quick jaunt to the ISS and Branson is asking a small fortune for a few minutes of sub orbital flight.
Go forth Spitzer! To infinity and....
Facebook, Twitter and Google are to blame for terrorism, say MPs
Page 3.
Page 3 quotes lots of "Key Facts" like these...
Between mid-2015 and February 2016, Twitter had suspended over 125,000 accounts
globally that were linked to terrorists. Google removed over 14 million videos
globally in 2014 which related to all kinds of abuse.
So how can they say they're not doing anything against terrorism.
Get yer gnashers round 64-layer 3D NAND, beam WDC and Toshiba
Etch a stretch: 3D NAND layer cake flop leads to 'string stacking'
Huawei: Our fake phone camera pic shame
Global 'terror database' World-Check leaked
Lenovo Solution Center portal patched to shutter hacker god mode hole
Genes take a shot at rebooting after death
Watch as SpaceX's latest Falcon rocket burns then crashes
TalkTalk scam-scammers still scam-scamming
Great, IBM has had a PCM breakthrough. Who exactly is going to manufacture?
Google tries social again
Watch it again: SpaceX's boomerang rocket lands on robo-sea-barge
SpaceX's Musk: We'll reuse today's Falcon 9 rocket within 2 months
Re: Weight Savings
As far as I know, the only design decision made for cost reasons was to make all of the engines and fuel tank segments the same. Which is why these rockets are the same thickness all the way up, rather than the saturn 5 with each stage a bit thinner. But I doubt you'd save much weight by changing that, you still need the same size, only the shape changes.
What to call a £200m 15,000-tonne polar vessel – how about Boaty McBoatface?
UK carrier Three in network-wide ad-block shock
Qualcomm drops antenna, amplifier silicon on OEMs
Intel and Micron's XPoint: Is it PCM? We think it is
UK Home Sec's defence of bulk spying: We 'found' a paedo (we already knew about)
You can hack a PC just by looking at it, say 3M and HP
NEW ERA for HUMANITY? NASA says something 'major' FOUND ON MARS
Re: It'll be a rock
Reminds me of this...
LISTER: OK, OK. What's Holly spotted?
RIMMER: An unidentified object.
LISTER: You mean a rock.
RIMMER: It might not be.
LISTER: They're always rocks.
RIMMER: Mostly they're rocks, I agree, but maybe this one's different.
LISTER: Rimmer, there's nothing out there, you know. There's nobody out
there. No alien monsters, no Zargon warships, no beautiful blondes
with beehive hairdos who say, "Show me some more of this Earth thing
called kissing." There's just you, me, the Cat, and a lot of floating
smegging rocks. That's it. Finito.
Sorry, can't get the formatting right.
Volkswagen used software to CHEAT on AIR POLLUTION tests, alleges US gov
It passes the test as written then.
So it detects when it's stood still idling and runs in low performance low emission mode. When under normal use you get decent performance but a bit more emission. Surely it's a pass. Unless you ban them from varying the engine map for different situations. In which case we're back to carburetors and even then only if they have a manual choke.
I know this is diesel so the carb bit doesn't really apply.
RFID wants to TRACK my TODGER, so I am going to CUT it OFF
RFID reading washing machine.
I guess its possible to have an RFID reading washing machine that reads the washing instructions and runs the appropriate program. However I can see it going wrong in so many ways. Like complete refusal to wash any of your clothes together because the instructions vary in some negligible way. Washing machine noticing a neerby dishcloth and putting your best shirt through the ulta-violent don't give a toss cycle. Levi recommend aerial, you can't use persil for this garment. Can't contact the server at Levi.com, please try again later. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Google's new scribble-tab-ulous handwriting interface for Android
Local Processing
though Imon-line now, I tried off- line. It seems exactly the same.
Using it to write this is taking ages though.
I think it needs more language Knowledge. It could also used better word suggestion system that knows what letters can get missunderstood.
overall not as bad as I expected, but very slow compared to typing.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Thin plot, great CGI effects
El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.
HOT YOUNG STAR about to GIVE BIRTH, long range images show
Looks to me like at least one big planet near the star, then some small ones before several more big ones. I suppose this kind of fits with the high number of very large known exoplanets that have close in orbits. Though that could also just be down to big close planets being much easier to detect. Apart from the big close one, its a bit like our solar system too.
My biggest conclusion is that I want to see more images like this.