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Doom can run on anything (pawb.social)
submitted 1 year ago by tibor@pawb.social to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there are 8 logic gates in a byte

uh. no? a logic gate isn’t a bit. you can store a single bit with a pair of not gates to make a flip flop, but the core logic here is flawed

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you can store a single bit with a pair of not gates to make a flip flop

Isn't it a pair of NAND gates? You can make anything with NAND gates.

Like this:

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So here’s some bad math. 160 crabs per NAND gate / byte. Doom’s original file size is roughly 2.39MB (I couldn’t find an actual source for this but it’s touted all over the web).

So 2390000 bytes * 160 crabs is 382400000 crabs.

So you can run doom on 382.4 million crabs

Edit: store, not run

[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

2 NAND gates are only a bit. You need 8 of those for a byte, that is 8 * 160 = 1280 crabs. For Doom you need 1280 * 2390000 = 3059200000 = 3059.2 million crabs