This schizophrenic templeOS guy was spamming /r9k/, and i started to think, what am i doing worrying about nogf when i haven't even accomplished the ultimate geek mission?
Most engineers i've met at a major telecom company have done this, or both.. and had it run on hardware they soldered togheter themselves back before there was standardized motherboards.
I have no excuse, other that im lazy, stupid, and certainly not a wizzkid.
But how about you guys?
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Anonymous2013-09-02 1:59
Writing an OS is a better goal and by OS I mean a fucking kernel, not a bunch of userpsace applications as those children on /g/ seem to think an OS is
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Anonymous2013-09-02 2:02
>>2
TempleOS is basically an os in where everything is in ring 0.
I guess a toy os would be something like that.
But how the fuck do i even make a boot loader for x86?
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Anonymous2013-09-02 2:06
>>3
Learning is part of the journey. In other words I don't have a clue so I'm trying to sound smart while dodging the question.
That's someone pretending to be Terry Davis, or tdavis. He's mentally ill, suffering from schizophrenia, and believes God talks to him through his operating system. He posts on /prog/ every now and then, and he seems to becoming less and less coherent in his posts. Usually citing stuff about Jews taking over the world, and how God is going to punish them, with a reference to a non-existent Biblical verse.
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Anonymous2013-09-02 5:13
>>9
I don't think he actually has posted anywhere on 4chan. Those posts are probably impersonators.
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Not new to /prog/.
I just left for a while, at which point the place was evidently flooded with namefaggots and people who worship them. Also spammers
To think there are people on ``/r9k/'' who think making an OS is no big task and they could easily make one of TemploOS's calibre. Fools. If only the tdavis were there to lecture them on fool's arrogance on God's behalf.
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Anonymous2013-09-02 7:03
>>20
Such fools, they can run TempleOS to hear and read the word of God.
in Christ Jesus
Amen.
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Anonymous2013-09-02 8:38
I wrote a Scheme interpreter in C. Turning it into a compiler would not be too hard. I just see no point.
As far as the OS thing, making OS has become a clusterfuck, I got to the point where I was able to boot a "Hello world" kernel in QEMU (took keyboard input, some simple commands, printed results, etc) and then got bored.
I've been wanting to write a C compiler for a while, though.
Writing a Scheme interpreter is a good project to get started on all of this as interpreting Scheme is fairly simple.
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Anonymous2013-09-02 8:41
Yeah well I wrote a Scheme interpreter in Scheme.
Step it up.
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Anonymous2013-09-02 8:58
>>22
Writing a general purpose OS+drivers for any system is a monumental task. It's much easier to write a special purpose OS that target specific types of hardware. TempleOS is an example of a special purpose OS that was feasible enough to be written by one person.
Writing a basic C compiler is relatively easy - anybody who's passed a CS course should be able to do one. The tricky bit is providing many features such as targeting different processing architectures and targetting different standards.
Here is some literature if you're new here and interested in writing Lisp interpreters:
- SICP (no shit)
- Essentials of Programming Languages (find the 2nd edition)
- Functional Programming Application and Implementation (my personal favorite)
- Lisp in Small Pieces
There is surely more, but that's the only one I've read.
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Anonymous2013-09-02 10:42
>>1
I think I'm of a minority opinion, but I do have the following strong credentials:
-Never hospitalized for mental illness
I would say that unless you have a reason to write an OS or a compiler you're wasting your time. Being able to do that is good, but why not find some new problem and solve it? Everyone knows that OSes and compilers can be written. A real accomplishment would be going out on the frontier and writing something new. A lot more is now possible in machine learning, for example. If write a compiler you must, why not write one that simplifies use of the GPU when running code? That would be a bigger accomplishment, and actually useful. (Actually, such things exist, but are still primitive.)
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Anonymous2013-09-02 11:26
>>26
The production of compilers and interpreters is still needed if not only for the targeting of ASIC architectures used for ad hoc purposes, robotics typically.
I'm aware that's not what tdavis's compiler does, but what the fuck ever.