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Yo:

TempleOS and PonyOS...

Peace out,
gravaera

gravaera wrote:TempleOS and PonyOS

Are they still heavyweights if you can't take them seriously?

Combuster wrote:

gravaera wrote:TempleOS and PonyOS

Are they still heavyweights if you can't take them seriously?

Probably not. TempleOS is heavy in that its author will sling really heavy racial slurs at anyone who disagrees with his nuttiness.

PonyOS is totally a serious competitor to the major operating systems of the world though, man!

I do like to think of my OS as being a real operating system, especially when compared with silly operating systems writing exclusively in assembly.

Ok, add sortix to the list of worthy OSes

"B-b-but assembly allows for better optimization by hand than higher level languages," the assembly fans stuck in days gone by cry to sortie, not realizing that compilers have progressed quite a lot since 1975...

It's not even whether it's faster or slower. It's that it is harder to maintain and platform specific. I find the C code in my operating system much easier to maintain than the assembly, so I moved to have very little assembly. This way, if I change the size of a typedef like pid_t, then I don't have to subtly change some assembly here and there to match the calling convention. C is quite simply more portable and reusable. An assembly operating system is inherently linked to that platform forever, perhaps except if they add a macro hell on top of it. C programs are written to an abstract machine with types that can have many potential sizes on different platforms, but the types play crucial roles.

Well you could cut out strand of hair from a human, read the genetic code and maybe write a disassembler that emits out "natural" assembly code, the OS name might be somewhere there in the header or the data section.

That OS would be heavyweight compared to any other.

Hell, it could also be as dumb, to make me post this uselesm+£+%+%£(%;;;()

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Yes, it could be loaded with b#gs too.