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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: 4, Interesting) by Arik on Tuesday September 11 2018, @06:18AM (9 children)
No, but after reading about a third of one of the links I'm already wondering why not.
"There is no built-in calculator application, because the shell itself is one. Just enter 5+7 on the command line and you'll get the answer."
That sounds good.
Every machine I had for years only required two more keystrokes for that, including the space
c 5+7
So much more friendly than the interface that tells you to start by searching for a calculator and then trying to fingerpaint the tiny buttons like a retard.
On the other hand the 640x480 is the holy resolution stuff does sound kind of kookie. But shit, I got kookie, or I got win10, or maybe some SystemD? Give me kookie, please, a double helping if you would be so kind.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(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!
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Tuesday September 11 2018, @04:41PM (1 child)
I remember looking at it a few years ago, and also thinking that it would be a nice base for an embedded OS. however it was written for x64. Almost all (cheap mass market) embedded systems available are ARM based (e.g. raspberry pi), or old Industrial SBCs which, if you want to find one that is affordable second hand. are mostly likely at Pentium I/II/III class i486 type machines.
TempleOS would not run on either one of those. You have a variety of open source OSes (including RTOS) for embedded systems of x86/arm architectures, and for x86 you can load up FreeDOS (which does not seem too bad as a non RT embedded OS). Temple OS didn't fit in either niche, and running it on a full x86-64 system for an embedded requirement was just overkill.
For me at least, outside of using it as an embedded system, it just didn't seem to have much practical use, and I never felt like firing it up in a VM just to fiddle with it. Saying that, I think I will give it a go when I get some time now. See what this mans Magnum Opus has brought to the world.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday September 11 2018, @07:32PM
Of course why not use FreeRTOS... like my Speed Queen clothes washer (and that is no kidding, weird as it might sound, and no my clothes washer is not "smart" nor networked, its just how they did the front panel.). I mean, if its good enough for my dishwasher, its good enough for my dev board, right?
The idea of flashing my clothes washer with an alternative OS, perhaps TempleOS, is strangely intriguing.