All programmers work on hobby projects. "Open source" gets everybody excited.
Linux is a monstrosity, however. We all learned on Apple ][s and C64s. Do you
remember those... when programming was fun, instead of overwhelming and
depressing? Do you remember editing disk blocks and poking hardware? Do you
remember changing video memory so the screen showed flashing live dumps of
memory?
It's my computer. The way I play with my computer is I poke around at anything
I want. It's like a car and I like to get under the hood. Thanks, but I don't
need a lock on the hood. Linux is like a modern car engine with no user
serviceable parts, but SparrowOS is like a simple 60's engine.... and,
incidentally, it has lots of raw horsepower, too. It actually outperforms Linux
or Windows, but that's silly. Obviously, bare metal outperforms anything else.
It's not bare metal but identity-mapping and ring-0-only are superior
performance -- you cannot argue, if you know what they mean. No privilege level
changes and no memory map penalties is optimal.
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Anonymous2013-03-04 18:57
So high-performance that it struggles to render a shitty 640x480 ``flight simulator'' with 8 threads and very limited color depth?
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Anonymous2013-03-04 19:00
>>1
Why haven't you added VESA 2.0 graphics? You know it's only like 2 interrupt calls to get a mode list, and another interrupt to set a display mode, although you have to execute them in real mode.
>>3
I asked God for permission to do that and he said no.
sometimes i feel like God is working with the CIA and i'll never win in the end
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Anonymous2013-03-04 19:07
>>4
I am God and you have angered me Terry Davis. I'm commanding you to begin adding VESA 2.0 support or I will kill your pet sparrow within 7 days and 7 nights. You need only support linear-buffer modes, and not the bank-switched modes of VESA 1.2. I expect great things of you Terry, do not anger me further.
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Not Terry2013-03-04 19:08
>>1
That might be so... but are those the only things that affect performance?
Hopefully Jew-niggers piss off God more and boom bang they gone. Hitler CIA of course. India-nigger rampage with my fucken car fucken pigeon masters. CIA pills God said NO!
it would be
>seriously, terry
do you even grammar?
plus the CIA is out to get him I guess based on his ramblings
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Anonymous2013-03-04 19:28
What dictionary does tdavis use for his random ``God'' shit? Did he import something like /usr/share/dict/words into Losethose/SparrowOS, or did he come up with his own?
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Terry2013-03-04 19:29
>>21
Ever heard of "channelling" God you nigger? Moses was a fucken natural at that one.
>>1 this sounds really cool, but i guess building my own OS seems rather overwhelming..
even with a lock on the hood, i can still mess with the electrics in the dashboard ^^