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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

So here’s some bad math. 160 crabs per NAND gate / byte. Doom’s original file size is roughly 2.39MB (I couldn’t find an actual source for this but it’s touted all over the web).

So 2390000 bytes * 160 crabs is 382400000 crabs.

So you can run doom on 382.4 million crabs

Edit: store, not run

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

you can ~~run~~ store doom

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

2 NAND gates are only a bit. You need 8 of those for a byte, that is 8 * 160 = 1280 crabs. For Doom you need 1280 * 2390000 = 3059200000 = 3059.2 million crabs