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A Technical Look Inside TempleOS
jones_supa writes: TempleOS has become somewhat of a legend in the operating system community. Its sole author, Terry A. Davis, is a special kind of person, who has a tendency to appear in various places with a burst of strange comments. Nevertheless, he has spent the past 12 years creating a new operating system from scratch, and has shipped a functional product. An article takes a constructive technical look at the internals of TempleOS: installation, shell, file explorer, hypertext system, custom HolyC programming language, and interaction with hardware. The OS ships with a suite of several tools and demos as well. To see the sheer amount of content that's been written here over the years, to see such effort expended on a labor of love, is wonderfully heart-warming. In many ways TempleOS seems similar to systems such as the Xerox Alto, Oberon, and Plan 9; an all-inclusive system that blurs the lines between programs and documents.
Will this operating system be completely free of daemons?
This is the internet, where not calling people out with racial slurs is a crime on its own.
- Prof told me to write an OS and I wrote Linux.
- God told me to write an OS and I wrote TempleOS.
- Devil told me to write an OS and I wrote Windows.
That's right, you sentient non-translucent person!
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"blurs the lines between programs and documents"
Yeah. So do Word macro viruses and Outlook email exploits.