Can anything not play Doom?

https://github.com/wojciech-graj/doom-ascii

The frame rate may be somewhat limited, but dealing with that is really just a skill issue.

You can crack a cacodemon over the noggin with it.

I’ve never actually lol’ed at a Linux meme until today.

Check out the Olivetti pcs!

Huh, cool!

Well, interoffice memos.

Mate, it’s not that deep.

They’ve at least chosen to not include !.

Terminal emulators are bloat

The Linux kernel itself contains a terminal emulator — that’s how you can swap among virtual terminals on the console — and unless the code was rewritten at some point, that’s really the true core of Linux; the Linux kernel originally was a terminal emulator, before the other stuff got added. Before Linus even made his first announcement, when it was still a purely one-man project that he was banging on:

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-very-first-interview-about-linux

The very first interview about Linux with Linus Torvalds - Oct 28, 1992

LN: Please give a short summary of the history of Linux.

Linus: Difficult. “Linux” didn’t really exist until about August-91 - before that what I had was essentially just a very basic protected mode system that had evolved from a glorified “Hello world” program into a even more glorified terminal emulator. Linux stopped for quite a while at the terminal emulator stage: I played around with Minix, and used my protected mode program to read news from the univerity machine. No down/upload, but it did a fair vt100 emulation, and did it by using two tasks which communicated from keybodard->modem and modem->screen.

By mid-summer -91, “Linux” was able to read the disk (joyful moment), and eventually had a small and stupid disk driver and a simple buffer cache. So I started out trying to make a filesystem, and used the Minix fs for simple practical reasons: that way I already had a file layout I could test things on. After some more programming (talk about glossing things over), I had a very simple UNIX that had some of the basic functionalities of the real thing: I could run small test-programs under it.

That being said, I think that most people are probably using the framebuffer console these days — you aren’t usually talking to your graphics card in text mode on x86-64 machines, but rather in graphics mode, and an image of text is being rendered and handed to the graphics card, and I don’t know if internally, the original virtual terminal code is used beneath that or if there’s a different stack and two independent in-kernel virtual terminal emulators.

Ah, my apologies. Just a sheet of normal ISO A4 printer paper. Nothing fancy.

Alright

The topping of this is going to require 220 lb 100% cotton vellum-finish cardstock and someone equipped with a calligraphy pen. There are some plotters that can take fountain pens.

Thanks!