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Why Davis' TempleOS is better than Torvald's Linux

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Re: Why Davis' TempleOS is better than Torvald's Linux

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Is it essentially a C interpreter that runs on the metal? Or is there more to it? What about device drivers?

Does the C standard define a compiler? Then this is not C, otherwise, depends how close it is to the standard, that is how many shortcuts and workarounds are used. On Linux you can use GDB to achieve similar results, I guess.

Re: Why Davis' TempleOS is better than Torvald's Linux

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"So now we're gonna put colors in. North America should be red, like Native Americans, [...] Asia should be yellow, [...] and Africa should be black."

"However, no continent is represented by any specific ring. Prior to 1951, the official handbook stated that each color corresponded to a particular continent: blue for Europe, yellow for Asia, black for Africa, green for Australia and Oceania and red for the Americas; this was removed because there was no evidence that Coubertin had intended it (the quote above was probably an afterthought)." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_symbols#The_Rings

Re: Why Davis' TempleOS is better than Torvald's Linux

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This takes me back to when computers had a lot fewer layers. He's inspired by Apple ][ and C64, but it's also reminiscent of Smalltalk-80 and Lisp machines, with the live UI links, inspectors, first-class graphic objects... I also enjoyed the birds screeching in mid demo.

Re: Why Davis' TempleOS is better than Torvald's Linux

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"So now we're gonna put colors in. North America should be red, like Native Americans, [...] Asia should be yellow, [...] and Africa should be black."

Why did you leave out the parts that are inconvenient to the narrative you're making up? "Europe should be blue" - is that racist?

I guess the technical achievement means nothing. Where is your certificate of political correctness?

Why is it socially acceptable to bully like this?

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