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Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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TempleOS has no process isolation, so it's completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I'm starting to think there's a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn't increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person…

It also has no TCP/IP stack from what I remember.

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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post #8

TempleOS has no process isolation, so it's completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I'm starting to think there's a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn't increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person…

That's like saying "I don't have any doors in my house, just open frames. So I'm not affected by the weaknesses in locks."

Locks are just propaganda anyway.

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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post #6

The amount of dedication Terry shows for his project is beyond what you see anywhere else in the software dev space. For anyone who hasn't, I recommend to watch his videos on TempleOS (there are a lot of hymn videos or ranting videos, you can ignore those), they are a genuinely interesting perspective into OS Development.

> The amount of dedication Terry shows for his project is beyond what you see anywhere else in the software dev space.

I'd say Linus Torvalds shows at least the same amount of dedication to the linux kernel.

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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post #8

TempleOS has no process isolation, so it's completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I'm starting to think there's a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn't increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person…

That's like saying "I don't have any doors in my house, just open frames. So I'm not affected by the weaknesses in locks."

Yeah but TempleOS also lacks networking so the house is also in interstellar space completely isolated from burglars trying to steal your stuff.

It's a very interesting design, I recommend to atleast play a bit with TempleOS.

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's like saying "I don't have any doors in my house, just open frames. So I'm not affected by the weaknesses in locks."

Locks are just propaganda anyway.

May I suggest a social construct ?

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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post #8

TempleOS has no process isolation, so it's completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I'm starting to think there's a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn't increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person…

>wisdom in its design

Design choices in TempleOS are basically made by rolling dice.

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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post #6

The amount of dedication Terry shows for his project is beyond what you see anywhere else in the software dev space. For anyone who hasn't, I recommend to watch his videos on TempleOS (there are a lot of hymn videos or ranting videos, you can ignore those), they are a genuinely interesting perspective into OS Development.

> The amount of dedication Terry shows for his project is beyond what you see anywhere else in the software dev space. I'd say Linus Torvalds shows at least the same amount of dedication to the linux kernel.

Terry has been writing on TempleOS (and the previous iterations which were mostly name changes) for about 15 years without pause, even Linus takes breaks.
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