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I could probably shave a few seconds off that if it was written in assembly
if it was compiled then probably a few days
Now run Doom on it.
I feel like running doom is much less of a challenge
Doom barely ran on my Packard Bell 386
Doom has even been ported to 8088
If we have a discover aliens the first thing we're going to do if they have computers is try and run Doom on it.
And likewise the aliens will want to get ahold of our computers where they will try porting an alternate version of doom where you play as an alien shooting humans.
Nice, now run Linux on a tube computer!
You've just given someone an idea. Next step: a Babbage difference engine.