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mistyvalesyesterday at 6:27 PM3 repliesview on HN

I remember the pregnancy test Doom. Wasn't it "running" on the display only?


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deathanatosyesterday at 9:37 PM

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.

bananaboytoday at 2:17 AM

They replaced both the display and the microcontroller with something like an Adafruir Trinket.

teddyhtoday at 12:03 AM

It wasn’t even the test’s original display, IIRC; they just re-used the housing and inserted a fancier display.