You were right to assume that in this case. DNS is not running doom here, it's just storing it.

That's fair. I guess "can it store DOOM?" is still an interesting question though.

Is it? DNS has an explicit mechanism for storing data.

Ok well it was new to me ok!

“Run” is doing a lot of heavy lifting at this point.

I remember the pregnancy test Doom. Wasn't it "running" on the display only?

Yes, I think it was, but that was also b/c, IIRC, the pregnancy tester had a CPU, too. A CPU can actually run things.

DNS … cannot, and that's why the person upthread is criticizing the use of the word "run" here. DNS ran nothing.

No it wasn't, it just was the display. My commented example in this thread states that in every device your are running Zork I-III or any z-machine v3 compatible game it's actually hosting the interpreter and the game itself, from the Game Boy to an smartphone, a PC, an old PDA...

It wasn’t even the test’s original display, IIRC; they just re-used the housing and inserted a fancier display.

They replaced both the display and the microcontroller with something like an Adafruir Trinket.

Which is more ambitious, targeting the MONIAC platform or ENIAC?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine (MONIAC)

I'd say both are looking increasingly doable.

Coming up: playing doom on Ping-as-Storage

It's ready, nothing to enjoy.

ICMP packets can be arbitrary length, and there are plenty of tcp-over-icmp tunnels.

Not what I meant, I meant icmp as storage, not as communication.

There was this article a long time ago about using packets in transit as storage/memory, mischeivously for free.

Turns out this is how early memory worked, i think it was called delay line memory, made of mercury, i think PDP and DEC era