Temple OS review by the Linus Tech Tip channel [video]
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Even good content from big Youtubers needs click-bait and vague title on Youtube to be successful.
I reckon I miss a chunk of decent, probably-tolerable content, but the feed my cookies get seems pretty clean because of the effort.
Sure it all sucks for the users, but if you are a programmer I encourage you to once in your life deep dive into old school coding on a machine that you control completely. You can pump out powerful code so much faster! It is a serious 2x-3x speedup.
Until another process trashes your memory because flat memory layouts don't offer any protection. That sucks. But up until then, lots of fun!
There are precedents of that though: from what I’ve seen in videos and read in manuals, the integrated LISP environments like Genera did have that much earlier. That was built by teams of people with way more resources than him.
I think Terry Davis was right in that some valuable things have been lost in modern computing systems.
BTW, today I watched a demonstration of an IDE from the 1990s linked from another HN discussion which also hyperlinked things like the debugger (gdb) output etc.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQQTScuApWk
It was the company that made Lucid Emacs (later XEmacs) which they built for this purpose: graphic elements combined with monospace text.