A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
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Re: A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
#2Great idea!
Re: A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
#3Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up
Re: A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
#4sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !
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#5Played this originally, glad to see scripting included
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#6Maybe 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".
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#7Reminds me of psDooM
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#8Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
Re: A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
#9Maybe 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".
So that's why the Matrix needed humans to power their systems!
Re: A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
#10This 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.