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UNIX still trying to catch up with Xerox workstations in the REPL experience, or general Lisp machines for that matter. Inline graphics from 1981, https://you
by pjmlp 6mo ago
UNIX still trying to catch up with Xerox workstations in the REPL experience, or general Lisp machines for that matter.
Inline graphics from 1981,
https://youtu.be/o4-YnLpLgtk?t=376 https://youtu.be/o4-YnLpLgtk?t=376
- pocksuppet 6mo agoOr TempleOS.
- Onavo 6mo agoThat was a work of art. Also Oberon.
- whywhywhywhy 6mo ago>work of art more like theopneustos
- d-us-vb 6mo agoEven Terry Davis wasn't that bold.
- drakythe 6mo agoGiven that Terry described the manic episodes as "a revelation from God" I think theopneustos is an accurate description. It just means "God Breathed" or "Inspired by God"
- d-us-vb 6mo agoOh, yeah that does make sense now that I think about it.
- jojobas 6mo agoWell he did admit this possibility https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K8IEzXnMYk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K8IEzXnMYk
- em-bee 6mo agoand plan9 also smalltalk we used oberon in one class in university. i don't remember much unfortunately.
- mghackerlady 6mo agoPeople joke about templeos a lot, but it had some really neat ideas (holy-c is a pretty nice language)
- nurettin 6mo agoIt should have been HolyBasic. Mistyping a HolyC indirection in an editor causes the OS to crash.
- tombert 6mo agoI've dug around the TempleOS codebase a bit, and while it certainly is impressive for a single guy's work, I think there's been an overcorrection where people act like Terry was some hyper genius instead of "a pretty smart guy". I kind of got the impression that whenever Terry didn't know how to do something, he would just convince himself that that's not what God wanted anyway and stop doing it.
- shaky-carrousel 6mo agoI like that mindset. "This bug is not meant to be solved."
- pocksuppet 6mo agoMost of the people we think of geniuses are not smarter than the average smart person, but they persevered more. Terry had the ultimate driver of perseverance: severe mental illness.
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- jszymborski 6mo agoI came here to mention how it reminded me of the sick 3D icons TempleOS had in its terminal
- Sharlin 6mo agoThe announcement blog post (https://blog.orhun.dev/introducing-ratty/ https://blog.orhun.dev/introducing-ratty/), which would've been a better submission URL, unsurprisingly says that TempleOS was the direct inspiration of the project.
- steezeburger 6mo agoThat's not 3d
- pjmlp 6mo agoThe example on the linked video it isn't, correct. Here is another video, this time with S-PACKAGE used to develop Nintendo 64. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV5obrYaogU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV5obrYaogU Which given the REPL capabilities, you can easily embedd them on it, just like the other video.
- orbital-decay 6mo agoLater rebranded as Mirai. I remember playing with a pirated copy of Nichimen Mirai somewhere in 2001 (I think), it looked weirdly Ediacaran in the Cambrian explosion of the late 90s.
- steezeburger 6mo agoSo you're saying that the Xerox workstation didn't have inline 3d graphics rendering capabilities? And in fact this isn't an instance of UNIX trying to catch up to Xerox workstations' REPL from yester-decade?
- SpaceNoodled 6mo agoIt's also from 2013
- steezeburger 6mo agoBut that's not what was relevant to their comment. "Here's this new thing that can Ⓧ!" "Pfft, Y could do X years ago." Well, Ⓧ ≠ X. Come on now, we're programmers here.
- SpaceNoodled 6mo agoJust noting how every single part of that was wrong.
- hans-l 6mo agoSometimes I really feel we're chasing UX that were solved in the Mother of all Demos (in 1968). For those who haven't watched it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
- pjmlp 6mo agoAgreed.