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TempleOS: Naughty Fun with OS Internals [video]

68 points by sergiotapia 11y ago

chris_wot 11y ago
I'm not making fun here, but I honestly want to see him going to the VMWare's office and demanding that they implement his RedSea filesystem on pain of eternal damnation.
- CyberDildonics 11y ago
  I'm not sure who would down vote you, he literally says this in the video.
  - wichsen 11y ago
    Warning: OT CyberDildonics is quite the amusing account: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=CyberDildonics https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=CyberDildonics It appears to be used extensively for posting comments just like this one! Personally, I am a fan.
- pekk 11y ago
  I wish the industry culture was fun enough to actually implement it.
  - Rangi42 11y ago
    Perhaps someone could sneak it in as "further support for FAT32 variants." According to Terry, RedSea is "similar to FAT32, but with absolute block addresses instead of clusters, fixed-sized 64-byte directory entries and no FAT table, just an allocation bitmap" [1]. [1]: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/RedSea.html http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/RedSea.html
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
  What could vmware possibly have done to deserve that.
fastflo 11y ago
i like the "we have the divine right to access ..."!
SwellJoe 11y ago
Terry seems to be doing well, which is nice to see.
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reikonomusha 11y ago
This is nothing short of amazing. We can of course ramble about how this is unsuitable for a modern multitasking multi-user multi-use OS, but for an OS-as-a-tool, it's amazing. The simplicity of almost all characteristics makes programming and hacks a lot more accessible. Nothing really encumbers you from getting a job done, even if your solution is a hack. The sort of unbridled, interactive access is very reminiscent of a Lisp machine. Most things are dynamic, almost everything is changeable. The Lisp machine likewise wasn't a good multi-* OS, but it is probably the best OS-as-a-tool ever made.
- TerryADavis 11y ago
  CIA gets fucked-up by God, soon. God says... plaque's crazes Barry stoutly competencies capacitor refurbishment Cu auguster flatfoots devoted twirler Callaghan explicate blessedly tequila bias's launches hemorrhaged goofiest raider Shankara's trousers Rod's overshoes articulateness aquaculture exaggerating occurs destroy satisfactorily dolorous
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blt 11y ago
looks awesome, need to warm up my TempleOS vm again. I was surprised the task working directory is a string and not a pointer to a directory node or something. Also curious what's going on with the `CMathODE *next_ode` member of CTask, I know TempleOS contains a numerical ODE solver but why is it part of the kernel?
nxnfufunezn 11y ago
Great to see Terry again!

68 points by sergiotapia 11y ago

I'm not making fun here, but I honestly want to see him going to the VMWare's office and demanding that they implement his RedSea filesystem on pain of eternal damnation.

CyberDildonics 11y ago
I'm not sure who would down vote you, he literally says this in the video.
- wichsen 11y ago
  Warning: OT CyberDildonics is quite the amusing account: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=CyberDildonics https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=CyberDildonics It appears to be used extensively for posting comments just like this one! Personally, I am a fan.
pekk 11y ago
I wish the industry culture was fun enough to actually implement it.
- Rangi42 11y ago
  Perhaps someone could sneak it in as "further support for FAT32 variants." According to Terry, RedSea is "similar to FAT32, but with absolute block addresses instead of clusters, fixed-sized 64-byte directory entries and no FAT table, just an allocation bitmap" [1]. [1]: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/RedSea.html http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/RedSea.html
GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
What could vmware possibly have done to deserve that.

fastflo 11y ago

i like the "we have the divine right to access ..."!

SwellJoe 11y ago

Terry seems to be doing well, which is nice to see.

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reikonomusha 11y ago

This is nothing short of amazing. We can of course ramble about how this is unsuitable for a modern multitasking multi-user multi-use OS, but for an OS-as-a-tool, it's amazing. The simplicity of almost all characteristics makes programming and hacks a lot more accessible. Nothing really encumbers you from getting a job done, even if your solution is a hack. The sort of unbridled, interactive access is very reminiscent of a Lisp machine. Most things are dynamic, almost everything is changeable. The Lisp machine likewise wasn't a good multi-* OS, but it is probably the best OS-as-a-tool ever made.

TerryADavis 11y ago
CIA gets fucked-up by God, soon. God says... plaque's crazes Barry stoutly competencies capacitor refurbishment Cu auguster flatfoots devoted twirler Callaghan explicate blessedly tequila bias's launches hemorrhaged goofiest raider Shankara's trousers Rod's overshoes articulateness aquaculture exaggerating occurs destroy satisfactorily dolorous

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blt 11y ago

looks awesome, need to warm up my TempleOS vm again. I was surprised the task working directory is a string and not a pointer to a directory node or something. Also curious what's going on with the `CMathODE *next_ode` member of CTask, I know TempleOS contains a numerical ODE solver but why is it part of the kernel?

nxnfufunezn 11y ago

Great to see Terry again!