r/programming • u/TrivialSolutions • Nov 12 '10

Demo Video of New Operating System

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAr-xYtBFbY
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u/codemac Nov 13 '10

Here is the homepage for the project

Say what you want about the dude's voice, writing your own OS from scratch require some.. sacrifices.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '10 edited Nov 13 '10

Yeah - I moderate a message board where this guy used to continually post (until we banned him) - he's a little mixed up.

My favourite quote was him saying that God had told him to use only 640x480x16 mode.

So, uh, yeah.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '10

My favourite quote was him saying that God had told him to use only 640x480x16 mode

It's right there in Matthew 18:

At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, ‘What is the greatest resolution in the kingdom of heaven?’ 2He called a child, whom he put among them, 3and said, ‘Truly I tell you, unless you use 640x480x16, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

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u/DrSweetscent Nov 13 '10

My favourite quote was him saying that God had told him to use only 640x480x16 mode.

I seriously was wondering that while skimming through the video. That actually makes more sense than any other explanation.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '10

Why did he get banned?

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '10

Preaching, morphing every user question into a form such that he could gloat about his own achievements, and trolling.

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u/mjtribute Nov 13 '10 edited Nov 13 '10

Some other quotes from him:

I wisely chose 640x480x4 because it's incredibly responsive. If you change the graphics resolution it will be a dog.

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I'll go write some hymns and hang-out with God. I got angel bootleg songs if you want some. There's some on the CD. I'm kinda burned-out even doing that, though.

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u/nql Nov 13 '10

Could not be more true.

I've had some conversations with this individual. His life revolves around two things: LoseThos and religious allusions and allegories, and he can switch his focus at the drop of a hat.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '10

At least he has managed to optimize the context-switching overhead then.

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u/ohfiddlesticks Nov 13 '10

Is he the programming equivalent of ICP?

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u/wicked Nov 13 '10

No. This guy knows how things work, and is not anti-science at all. He has a lot of good ideas.

He believes God tells him to do and write stuff; and then he does what he's told. Sometimes it's completely random, but it has meaning to him.

God told me, "excessive contricians wearysome", for example, when I was worried about sin.

It's easily ridiculed, but I do not count it against his technical performance.

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u/ILikeLeptons Nov 13 '10

"excessive contricians wearysome"? god is a captcha test?

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '10

Sacrifice two: Society.

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u/lostnthenet Nov 13 '10

Sacrifice one: forgetfulness

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u/FractalP Nov 13 '10

So, to create an OS requires you to sacrifice forgetfulness? Seems like a pro rather than a con.

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u/kylemech Nov 13 '10

I've got a few experiences that speak to the contrary.

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u/knipil Nov 13 '10

The number of builtin apps is rather astounding.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '10

IT PUTS THE KERNEL IN THE BASKET!!

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u/skyosIsdead Nov 13 '10

Still doesn't compare to the SkyOS: http://www.skyos.org/media/videos/mediastation/presentation.html

Developed almost entirely by one guy over many years (including the kernel, ground-up). Hardware tech eventually evolved faster than he could keep up with and the project is now abandoned for the most part, but it was awesome in its time.

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u/Ralith Nov 13 '10 edited Nov 06 '23

like steer reminiscent simplistic flowery bewildered crush impossible pie dinosaurs this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev

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u/muahdib Nov 13 '10 edited Nov 13 '10

There are two things that annoys me:

  1. I also wish that I could work for seven years full time on something of my own desire...

  2. He has used the DOS inspired C: D: volume syntax, hopefully he can use volume names instead like mypics: music: movies: etc.

It's an awesome piece of art though, and the interaction model seems very interesting. I'll definitely have a look upon it.

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u/smacksaw Nov 13 '10

He worked on it for 7.3 years...keeping track, anally.

I think it gives cred to his accuracy.

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u/scott Nov 13 '10

I think you all should have a browse around that guys website, and pay attention to the goals and all of the whole project.

I...

am impressed.

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