For those who don't know, this was created by HN member losetheOS aka SparrowOS. You won't see his comments unless you shave ShowDead enabled in your profile, as many people find his comments confusing.<p>Terry is schizophrenic and this sometimes make communications tricky, but I'm in awe of how he's developed a complete operating environment from scratch and which is quite different from anything else I'm aware of. Also, I really appreciated the insight this video gave into his motivations for the OS and how he uses it. Thanks for uploading the video Terry, and to morganwilde for posting it on HN.
From the MetaFilter Thread comes Terry's description of his work:<p><i>I wnated to make a souped-up, modern 64-bit, C64 so teenagers could do what I did in high school. I had the book Mapping the C64 and I had hours of fun poking and proding around with all the internals of the operationg system for cheap thrills. I wanted to let people control the hardware directly. I wanted something simple, to get your head around. LoseThos is two orders of magnitude simpler than Linux. LoseThos is 135,000 lines of code including my compiler. It is 100% self contained and complete. When I got Linux, I was disappointed because I thought "open source" meant I would have fun messing with the code. Linux tries to support so many architectures and has a main frame operating system, that it's too complex. LoseThos is way way way simpler. Plus it has many innovative ideas. It is not ASCII source code, for example.</i>
I wonder if there was any special reason for choosing x64, other than that it's the most powerful architecture that is easily accessible. Will TempleOS (or some future version) ever be implemented for ARM or other platforms like the Mill? (<a href="http://millcomputing.com/docs/" rel="nofollow">http://millcomputing.com/docs/</a>)<p>Edit: there is a lot of explanation at <a href="http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/TempleOS.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/TempleOS.html</a> - I guess I should have asked 'are you <i>only</i> interested in x64, or other architectures too?'