Anyone spent any time looking at TempleOS? There's...
# thinking-togethera
Andrew Reece
07/11/2019, 9:49 AMAnyone spent any time looking at TempleOS? There's a decent overview here: http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/
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ogadaki
07/11/2019, 9:54 AMThanks for posting this article here! I've heard of TempleOS a long time ago, and lately I wanted to dig the subject a bit more. This article is perfect for that. I will carefully read it later!
ogadaki
07/11/2019, 9:56 AMBut I have read its beginning and I like a lot the point a view. I.e. stopping mocking because it is weird stuff and focus on the creativity of its author and what makes its creation interesting.
ogadaki
07/11/2019, 10:00 AMI see TempleOS as a kind of "outsider art" (or "art brut" in french) in the field of programming! This kind of stuff can be very insightful of what human creativity is. And these weird piece of creativity have a very special beauty. 🙂
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ogadaki
07/11/2019, 10:01 AMI would love to here about more stuff like that! Anyone knows something similar?
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Kochise
07/11/2019, 10:06 AMTalked to Terry years back when it was named LoseThos, was kind at first to have some interest into his OS, but it rapidly focused on God and things. To me it was a great evolution of a "boot 'n code" Commodore 64, but the lack of modernity (greater video resolution, networking, ...) and as he finished to close the source code (that was a C-flavored language) made things less interesting. I then turned to MonaOS or Visopsys.
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Kartik Agaram
07/11/2019, 4:15 PM
There is no ahead-of-time linker, nor object files. The dynamic linker is exclusively responsible for binding symbols together at load time. The symbol table remains accessible at runtime, and can be used for other purposes. TempleOS has no environment variables - you just use regular variables.💡😲
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Edward de Jong / Beads Project
07/11/2019, 10:09 PMTempleOS has many wonderful simplifying concepts. A tragedy that really simple things like Oberon/Lility and TempleOS get ignored so easily. Multics was as dream compared to Unix, yet it also was ignored.
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