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> The sad and inspiring story of TempleOS, a.k.a. what the Raspberry Pi should have been. Eh?

by tus88 7y ago

solidgriever 7y ago
What the...
cyborgx7 7y ago
Wait, that is actually in there. What the hell does this even mean?
- octotoad 7y ago
  Sounds like they’re referring to characteristics of TempleOS that may have suited the original goals of the Raspberry Pi, which was to be a tinker-friendly device for audiences like school children. Some people lament the fact that it simply ended up with a plain, general purpose Unix-like, rather than something more low level and immediately direct (as in, drop you to a BASIC, not necessarily assembler), ala Commodore 64. The peculiarities of the author aside, a live TempleOS was able to have its running code modified on the fly, and allowed direct low level access to what was under the hood in perhaps a more interesting hacker-ish way than your typical Unix clone/descendant.
  - zozbot234 7y ago
    That's a bit silly, tbh. Dropping you straight into BASIC may be appropriate for an 8-bit computer with a few hundred KiB at most of combined RAM and ROM, but the Raspberry Pi is nothing like that. A *nix system is really the closest analogy, since the development tools for that are only an apt-get away! You even get some BASIC implementations, even though it's not very clear how much those help. I'd actually like to see a roughly BASIC-like language that's simply a reasonably light syntax-wrapper over, say, Rust. It might make it easy for novices to get into hacking and software dev with a language that doesn't abstract too much away from the actual system - and then transition to a "real" language like Rust later.
adrianN 7y ago
TempleOS is a really cool system to hack. You should watch some of the live coding videos the author did. It's really much more of a tinkerer's system than the stock Linux that runs on most Pis.
- bencollier49 7y ago
  More people should use RISC OS with the Pi.
gitgud 7y ago
Well it was hacked together from scratch which is inspiring... But I mainly see it as a cautionary tale on mental health and how arrogance can destroy your reputation...

> The sad and inspiring story of TempleOS, a.k.a. what the Raspberry Pi should have been. Eh?

by tus88 7y ago

> The sad and inspiring story of TempleOS, a.k.a. what the Raspberry Pi should have been. Eh?

solidgriever 7y ago

What the...

cyborgx7 7y ago

Wait, that is actually in there. What the hell does this even mean?

octotoad 7y ago
Sounds like they’re referring to characteristics of TempleOS that may have suited the original goals of the Raspberry Pi, which was to be a tinker-friendly device for audiences like school children. Some people lament the fact that it simply ended up with a plain, general purpose Unix-like, rather than something more low level and immediately direct (as in, drop you to a BASIC, not necessarily assembler), ala Commodore 64. The peculiarities of the author aside, a live TempleOS was able to have its running code modified on the fly, and allowed direct low level access to what was under the hood in perhaps a more interesting hacker-ish way than your typical Unix clone/descendant.
- zozbot234 7y ago
  That's a bit silly, tbh. Dropping you straight into BASIC may be appropriate for an 8-bit computer with a few hundred KiB at most of combined RAM and ROM, but the Raspberry Pi is nothing like that. A *nix system is really the closest analogy, since the development tools for that are only an apt-get away! You even get some BASIC implementations, even though it's not very clear how much those help. I'd actually like to see a roughly BASIC-like language that's simply a reasonably light syntax-wrapper over, say, Rust. It might make it easy for novices to get into hacking and software dev with a language that doesn't abstract too much away from the actual system - and then transition to a "real" language like Rust later.

adrianN 7y ago

TempleOS is a really cool system to hack. You should watch some of the live coding videos the author did. It's really much more of a tinkerer's system than the stock Linux that runs on most Pis.

bencollier49 7y ago
More people should use RISC OS with the Pi.

gitgud 7y ago

Well it was hacked together from scratch which is inspiring... But I mainly see it as a cautionary tale on mental health and how arrogance can destroy your reputation...