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by Fnoord 722 days ago
Yes, it was a SGI application. Probably used in the movie Hackers.

There was also a Doom file manager where you'd use BFG to nuke a directory. I only found one for Doom 3 but this also existed with original Doom. Nowadays, BFG is only used to nuke git repos.
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giobox 722 days ago
Doom process managers where a thing for a while too, 20 years ago. Using the BFG on a crowded room of processes usually resulted in a system crash. Hunting down a stuck program and shooting it in E1M1 was pretty neat though. Your comment reminded me of playing with this in MacOS X a long time ago.

> https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html

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