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".
Master Control Program
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
#12Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?
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#13Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
A lot of these puzzle/micromanagement games are very similar to stuff folks do for work. I stopped playing an entire category of puzzle games once I realized it was basically programming, which I do all day for a living anyway. Gamified programming is still programming.
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#14got rebooted at 332k @ normal. maybe being an OS wasn't my calling :)
Re: A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
#15Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?
Get Tron to Sark so he can communicate!
Re: A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
#16Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
A lot of these puzzle/micromanagement games are very similar to stuff folks do for work. I stopped playing an entire category of puzzle games once I realized it was basically programming, which I do all day for a living anyway. Gamified programming is still programming.
Many programmers program for fun outside of work.
Re: A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
#17sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !
What's he doing these days?
Re: A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
#18Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up
I'm pretty sure this is exactly what is happening in real life. I pressed F12 damnit! Go into the bios already!!
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#19Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up
The absolute bane of my existence, I had a time a week ago repairing my bootloader after I (stupidly) did 3 months of windows updates after running a bunch of disk repairs and other recovery based things after I (again, stupidly) fell for a fake repo for deepseek tui and infected myself
Re: A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
#20Fun fact: operating systems were originally programs intended to replace most of the work of a human job description, that of computer operator.