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"Author" of os8088 here. You're right, it's hand-prompted. Claude's Opus and Fable have done a really great job helping me and another contributor shape this o

by jggonz 2mo ago

"Author" of os8088 here. You're right, it's hand-prompted. Claude's Opus and Fable have done a really great job helping me and another contributor shape this operating system. It's been a really interesting way to learn about the different techniques that other operating systems have used to get the performance we saw in LisaOS, MacOS, Windows, GEOS, etc... performance at 640x480 on an XT class machine is tricky! Also, the 64KB segment limitations were very interesting to overcome!

blks 2mo ago
One thing is where you learn through llm and then apply this knowledge, write asm the way humans do, another is letting Claude generate everything.
TheFuzzball 2mo ago
Did you ask Claude to write this comment too?
- jggonz 2mo ago
  lol, so disappointing to see the attacks when I'm just having some fun.
  - gedy 2mo ago
    It would probably had been fine had you just not put the "hand written" part.
    - jggonz 2mo ago
      Yes, agree. I laughed at that when I first saw it last week. I went ahead and cleared all that up on the homepage and the README now.
      - blks 2mo ago
        You haven’t even wrote readme yourself?
    - blks 2mo ago
      Funnily enough he removed hand written part also by Claude. Just wow.
ButlerianJihad 2mo ago
Stop calling it "Mac-like" and the project will live longer
- spankibalt 2mo ago
  No, please keep on track. "Mac-like" is a perfect fit for the "Daddy, what's (a) computer/programming?" vibe crowd. Even The Company itself thinks so, as evidenced by relevant advertisements of the not too distant past. :)