alt Hacker NewsA game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
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Fun fact: operating systems were originally programs intended to replace most of the work of a human job description, that of computer operator.
Reminds me of psDooM
Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?
Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
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".
got rebooted at 332k @ normal. maybe being an OS wasn't my calling :)
Played this originally, glad to see scripting included
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.
sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !
Great idea!
Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up