i386

Both projects highlight just how powerful embedded systems have become to the point where even digital cameras can now run a complete game.

When id Software launched the game in 1993, its minimum system requirements were an Intel 386 processor, four meg of RAM, and a VGA graphics card.

Now, if you've ever played Doom on a 386, um, you'll probably know that, um- You were better off with a 486, perhaps a higher end system.

And, uh, just, uh, deviating from the story a moment just to give my own thoughts.

The other thing, though, is this is kind of happening now.

This is kind of nearing 2012 where one of the maintainers of the Linux kernel said that they should get rid of Intel 386, which for the record, the Intel 386 has been around since 1985.

That was 41 years ago.

So I was really sad to see that they were getting rid of 486 because that's kind of the last holdout for putting Linux on truly dinosaur computers.