Doom can run on anything

there are 8 logic gates in a byte

uh. no? a logic gate isn’t a bit. you can store a single bit with a pair of not gates to make a flip flop, but the core logic here is flawed

Right? Even if it weren't, this only calculates how many crabs it would take to store Doom, not run it.
- No mention of fps or latency, authors clearly not gamers.
  
  Imagine some Smash Bros players who get pissy about 16.6ms playing on a CrabCPU with 13s latency...
you can store a single bit with a pair of not gates to make a flip flop

Isn't it a pair of NAND gates? You can make anything with NAND gates.

Like this:
- You can also do it with NOT gates. The driver needs to overpower the gates to change the bit and then it acts like a D flip flop rather than an RS flip flop like NAND gates will. But that's generally how they're actually made. SRAM generally looks like this: The side transistors are called access transistors; they're there so you can selectively read/write, but aren't needed to store the bit.
- yes, tired brain hiccup :)
- 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
- From the paper the picture is of an and gate.
  https://wpmedia.wolfram.com/uploads/sites/13/2018/02/20-2-2.pdf

Q: So what do you do for a living?

A: “I am only the greatest scientist of our age, harnessing the computational might of soldier crabs! While others tinker with mere circuits, I've unlocked the organic potential of crustacean logic gates. The future, my friend, isn't in machines, but in the scuttle of millions of tiny legs! Mwahahaha!”

*billions of tiny legs
- Scientist answer is part by Chatgpt. Maybe i should have enabled wolfram.

Everything returns to crabs, as it must

Brb working on rust backend to compile to crabs.

Is this rust?

There's a great scifi book that has a computer that's run on ants as logic gates. It's slow as fuck but has enough processing power to run an AI.

There's also one that is about how the entire earth is actually just a very powerful computer that calculates what's the question to the answer of the meaning of life.
- Don't forget to bring a towel.
- After spending a couple decades on this planet it’s clear that the dolphins and mice really are the smart ones.
Children of Time?
- Yea it’s this one. The evolved spider people used them in their equivalent of information age
  
  Also I think something very similar happened in the 3 Body Problem trilogy at some point
Discworld?
- Hex.
- -+- OUT OF CHEESE -+-
Reminds me of the "computer" they made using 30 million soldiers signalling to each other with flags in the book the Three Body Problem
- Came here to mention the trisolaran computer! Ngl I'm still unclear on the point of the whole virtual trisolaris.
There is one in the discworld novels too.