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TempleOS has various impressive features. http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/ http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-loo

TempleOS has various impressive features. http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/ http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...

lproven 4y ago
TempleOS is a hugely impressive one-man project, but it's a standalone OS with no networking. There are other tiny OSes which are FOSS and are much more capable. Oberon is my personal favourite, in terms of how much it does with how little. http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/ http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/
- 29athrowaway 4y ago
  There's networking now. https://github.com/minexew/Shrine https://github.com/minexew/Shrine
  - lproven 4y ago
    Wow! That I did not know. Terry Davies left it out intentionally, AFAICR, due to the complete lack of any security in TempleOS. Putting it back in seems a bit irresponsible, but nonetheless, it's impressive.
    - 29athrowaway 4y ago
      Yes, true. But if you are only running TempleOS on a VM, or an old computer, or a Raspberry Pi or something (not sure if it's supported), it should be fine.
bombcar 4y ago
RIP Terry. It's things like this that we need more of - and eschewing networking is a great way to work out what you can actually do with a computer. I feel everything just kind of develops until it has a TCP stack and then becomes another "basically just a blob on the internet". That's not even to get into the various things we just assume about networking that are actually just accidents of TCP, IP, or more and more HTTP. Another thing we haven't really dug deep into is the "everything is a file" paradigm which basically has been interpreted as "everything is a text file" - the hatred for binary data runs deep, but binary data is most likely the best for computers. XML, HTML, etc are perhaps NOT the best representation for various complex forms of data that we want to use.

TempleOS has various impressive features. http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/ http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...

lproven 4y ago

TempleOS is a hugely impressive one-man project, but it's a standalone OS with no networking. There are other tiny OSes which are FOSS and are much more capable. Oberon is my personal favourite, in terms of how much it does with how little. http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/ http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/

29athrowaway 4y ago
There's networking now. https://github.com/minexew/Shrine https://github.com/minexew/Shrine
- lproven 4y ago
  Wow! That I did not know. Terry Davies left it out intentionally, AFAICR, due to the complete lack of any security in TempleOS. Putting it back in seems a bit irresponsible, but nonetheless, it's impressive.
  - 29athrowaway 4y ago
    Yes, true. But if you are only running TempleOS on a VM, or an old computer, or a Raspberry Pi or something (not sure if it's supported), it should be fine.

bombcar 4y ago

RIP Terry. It's things like this that we need more of - and eschewing networking is a great way to work out what you can actually do with a computer. I feel everything just kind of develops until it has a TCP stack and then becomes another "basically just a blob on the internet". That's not even to get into the various things we just assume about networking that are actually just accidents of TCP, IP, or more and more HTTP. Another thing we haven't really dug deep into is the "everything is a file" paradigm which basically has been interpreted as "everything is a text file" - the hatred for binary data runs deep, but binary data is most likely the best for computers. XML, HTML, etc are perhaps NOT the best representation for various complex forms of data that we want to use.