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A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events (github.com)
41 points by exploraz 2 days ago
8 comments
petee 2 days ago
Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up
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fragmede 1 minute ago
This didn't get a lot of traction the other time I saw it, but one easily imagines this as part of a a game to teach operating systems, starting from no MMU all the way to how we manage distributed supercomputers like a DGX GB300, or Google's borg.
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monkpit 41 minutes ago
Reminds me of psDooM

https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

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mephage 42 minutes ago
Maybe that's what the Linux scheduler is actually - humans' consciousness stuck inside the computer managing the processes.

Sounds like that black mirror multi-part episode "White Christmas".

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mrkstu 1 minute ago
Master Control Program
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fragmede 4 minutes ago
So that's why the Matrix needed humans to power their systems!
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advisedwang 37 minutes ago
Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
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Affric 57 minutes ago
Played this originally, glad to see scripting included
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drfunk 2 days ago
sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !
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dmaginas 2 days ago
Great idea!
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