From: noemail@basdxcqvbe.com   
      
   On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:06:05 -0700 (PDT)   
   "muta...@gmail.com"  wrote:   
      
   > On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 at 1:27:51 AM UTC+10, Rod Pemberton wrote:   
      
   > > Anyway, "You doth protest too much!" Whenever DOOM is ported to yet   
   > > another device, no one complains. Yet, when DOS is ported to yet   
   > > another device, everyone runs away screaming.   
   >   
   > Can you elaborate on this? I wasn't aware of either thing.   
      
   DOOM is perceived as "cool" and has been ported to just about every   
   electronic device in existence. (*)   
      
   Lots of people are turned off by the idea of DOS or DOS-like CLI,   
   especially people from the *nix or Linux communities.  Any time   
   someone brings up this topic, such people balk, act like DOS was a   
   useless joke, either express hatred or simply ignore it.  Now, I'm   
   thinking we need to add people from the IBM communities to that list   
   too.   
      
   > There is a principle that games are good but certain   
   > operating systems are bad?   
   >   
      
   That was my point.   
      
      
   (*) E.g., on Hackaday alone there are articles on DOOM for:   
      
   nRF5340 SoC   
   A smart light bulb   
   A restaurant kitchen bump bar (order terminal)   
   Bootloader   
   iCE40 FPGA   
   Altera CycloneV FPGA   
   Nintendo Game & Watch   
   Nintendo NES   
   Printers   
   Smart Watches   
   Amiga   
   Cisco IP Phone   
   GPS device   
   ATMega328   
   Oscilloscope   
   Honeywell Prestige thermostat   
   Sansa MP3 Player   
   Leap TV console   
   Raspberry PI   
   Intel Edison   
   VoCore (SoC from routers)   
   ATM machine   
   TI-nspire calculators   
   Epaper display   
   BifferBoard   
   Portrait Screen   
   Game Boy   
      
   and,   
      
   A Roomba which generates DOOM levels   
   A neural network which generates DOOM levels   
      
      
   --   
   The Chinese have such difficulty with English ...  The word is not   
   "reunification" but "revenge".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)