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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @11:05PM (2 children)
You say there is little innovation in OSes these days, but what do you think an OS needs to do?
Fundamentally, it's there to launch/kill/manage tasks and IO.
(And yes, using all the well-known mechanisms to enable this like virtual memory, etc.)
It just seems like a fully explored field. Applications are another story...
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @11:15PM
Ok, sorry, I read the article this time.
I see the guy wrote more than an OS for this machine, and at the same time less than what we would consider an OS these days.
It is something of a throwback to the 8 bit (and early 16 bit) microcomputer era: a complete system for using the machine. Not scalable in many senses. Superceded by the systems that came after the 8 bit computers, after DOS.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday September 11 2018, @02:39AM
It was the first with a heirarchical filesystem, for example.
I expect the reason it wasn't more widely used was that it only ran on a specific kind of box.
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