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Just ran across this and have been stuck thinking about how this would have affected the development of gaming, PDAs, laptops, and cell phones. If there was ever any doubt, I think we can now rest assured that this is an inferior timeline after having learned about the WorkBoy.

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

In your proposed alternate timeline this would have made perfect sense: https://twitter.com/lizardbill/status/831937286891794437?t=hAwpxBgoEx31_j028KuY0w&s=19

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The gameboy was basically running a z80 so definitely capable of some serious work.

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

They're not quite the same as z80 cpus.