Terry Davis, the schizophrenic individual who was tasked by God to create the TempleOS operating system (and spent over 12 years single handedly doing so) was killed by a train in Oregon (link: https://www.resetera.com/threads/templeos-creator-terry-davis-dies-during-his-great-western-adventure.65752/ )
Details remain sketchy and the death has been largely unnoticed other than by his followers and family. Some speculation is that it was suicide.
An older motherboard article about Terry and TempleOS : https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnj43x/gods-lonely-programmer
"A constructive look at TempleOS" goes into some of what makes the OS interesting : http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/
Link to the free and public domain Temple OS: http://templeos.org/
Have any Soylentils ever installed and played with TempleOS?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday September 11 2018, @09:57AM (6 children)
As long as you're fine with giving up networking.
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(Score: 2) by Hyper on Tuesday September 11 2018, @10:30AM (2 children)
Why would we need networking?
It runs games, right?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday September 11 2018, @11:09AM (1 child)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TempleOS_4.05_session.png [wikipedia.org]
I hope you like X-Caliber [youtube.com].
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 11 2018, @01:42PM
How nostalgic
Tempted to load it in a VM just to see :)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Tuesday September 11 2018, @04:25PM (2 children)
That's relatively straightforward stuff and all the documentation should be available (as long as you're ok with a very limited selection of network hardware, at least.)
And as long as you're using it with other systems, it doesn't even need networking, strictly speaking. Does it support RS-232? A console connection to a workstation is all you would really need.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 11 2018, @07:58PM (1 child)
notice that he didn't add network because it set a max number of lines for the templeOS, if adding something new, he would need to remove something first... network would require lot of lines, so he refuse to add it
also notice that he used ubuntu as his OS for everything, the templeOS was running inside a VM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @03:29AM
Sacrilege!!!! The OS of God shall not be defiled by the satanic interwebs!