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Doom Runs on IBM Mainframe in Five-Minute Retro Gaming Feat

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Developers successfully ported Doom to an IBM mainframe system.

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The enterprise hardware sustained five minutes of gameplay before concluding.

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The experiment highlights ongoing developer culture traditions of running the game on unconventional devices.

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IBM mainframes are built for heavy transactions rather than real-time 3D graphics rendering.

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