Ancient Web: PSDoom Turned Unix Processes Into Doom Monsters

Dennis Chao's 1999 PSDoom experiment mapped Unix processes to Doom monsters so a system administrator could renice them by shooting and kill them by finishing the job.

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By Switchboard Tech Services · Originally published 2026-04-28

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