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A Technical Look Inside TempleOS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-big-and-fancy dept.

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.

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  1. Re: Interesting person by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Also rather racist.

  2. Video demonstration of the OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    OS FirstTimer TempleOS

  3. Before you comment saying he's a racist asshole by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Keep in mind this guy has schizophrenia, the word salads and bursts of inappropriate language are literally part of his illness, so try to focus on his technical achievements rather than take offence to his language.

  4. Re:Interesting person by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope, he's pretty hateful: http://www.reddit.com/user/TempleOS_Terry_Davis . Bear in mind that not all schizophrenics are assholes.

  5. Didn't we do this already? by gstoddart · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or is this a different bit of publicity than this?

    Is this to be a semi-annual thing?

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