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The original Doom, yes. Even though it was barely playable on a 386 25 MHz.

The original Quake was barely playable on a 486 DX4 100 MHz, and was fine on a Pentium.

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The FastDoom port slims down some floor textures and such and makes Doom playable (and not stamp sized) on a 386.

About the 386, you could run SICP as a GNU Info file blazingly fast and a Scheme compiler on another TTY, or under GNU Screen. You could typeset with Groff and Mom, too.

Now try running LaTeX on that. Yes, Donald Knuth is the Ur-creator on CS and typesetting, but hey, sometimes you don't need a full 3GB Texlive suite to typeset some book or math equation notebook.

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