This is something on my to do list to install this and play around with it.
This is something on my to do list to install this and play around with it.
TempleOS is way overhyped. It's a curiosity more than a useful OS or programming tool. Without applications that are useful and help people do things important to their work or other needs, an OS is useless. For all the years it was developed over, it stayed very primitive and lacked any significant usefulness outside of experimentation in a very limited environment. There have been so many other independent OSes developed over the years and all of them stayed at the enthusiast level for the most part. They all stayed there because no one did anything useful on top of them. Even GNU Linux still suffers from some of this because it lacks the unifying force of major apps helping to shape its future. I'm sure I'll get pushback on that statement, but it's the current year and we still don't have "Year of the Linux Desktop" as has been predicted for decades now.
TempleOS is way overhyped. It's a curiosity more than a useful OS or programming tool. Without applications that are useful and help people do things important to their work or other needs, an OS is useless. For all the years it was developed over, it stayed very primitive and lacked any significant usefulness outside of experimentation in a very limited environment. There have been so many other independent OSes developed over the years and all of them stayed at the enthusiast level for the most part. They all stayed there because no one did anything useful on top of them. Even GNU Linux still suffers from some of this because it lacks the unifying force of major apps helping to shape its future. I'm sure I'll get pushback on that statement, but it's the current year and we still don't have "Year of the Linux Desktop" as has been predicted for decades now.
TempleOS is definitely a curiosity, a "what if you made a Commodore 64-type firmware for a desktop PC?" experiment. Just the limitation of resolution puts a huge cost if you have a monitor made in the last 30 years. Being able to see a lot at once helps any programming task.
TempleOS is definitely a curiosity, a "what if you made a Commodore 64-type firmware for a desktop PC?" experiment. Just the limitation of resolution puts a huge cost if you have a monitor made in the last 30 years. Being able to see a lot at once helps any programming task.
TempleOS is definitely a curiosity, a "what if you made a Commodore 64-type firmware for a desktop PC?" experiment.
CP/M from the late 70s or early 80s was definitely more useful and usable than TempleOS. Even today there are more things you can do on CP/M powered computers old retro or modern vintage. It seems that fans of Terry's personality and public ravings made people think TempleOS is something grand simply because of their fandom of the man. It's just not that special and certainly not groundbreaking. I'd rather run OS/9 or CP/M because they were so much more developed and useful.
>TempleOS is definitely a curiosity, a "what if you made a Commodore 64-type firmware for a desktop PC?" experiment.
CP/M from the late 70s or early 80s was definitely more useful and usable than TempleOS. Even today there are more things you can do on CP/M powered computers old retro or modern vintage. It seems that fans of Terry's personality and public ravings made people think TempleOS is something grand simply because of their fandom of the man. It's just not that special and certainly not groundbreaking. I'd rather run OS/9 or CP/M because they were so much more developed and useful.
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