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by mistyvales 77 days ago
I remember the pregnancy test Doom. Wasn't it "running" on the display only?
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deathanatos 77 days ago
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.

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anthk 77 days ago
No it wasn't, it just was the display. My commented example in this thread states that in every device your are running Zork I-III or any z-machine v3 compatible game it's actually hosting the interpreter and the game itself, from the Game Boy to an smartphone, a PC, an old PDA...
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teddyh 77 days ago
It wasn’t even the test’s original display, IIRC; they just re-used the housing and inserted a fancier display.
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bananaboy 77 days ago
They replaced both the display and the microcontroller with something like an Adafruir Trinket.
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