TempleOS's comments

TempleOS · on March 2, 2017

TempleOS has two main features. Ring-0-only and no paging. (It's identity mapped because long mode requires it.)

Linux and Windows have ring 3 and paging.

Retr0spectrum · on March 2, 2017

That's great, but I think it's mainly because TempleOS has different target use cases to other modern OSs.

aanm1988 · on March 3, 2017

> It's identity mapped because long mode requires it

How can long mode require identity mapping? Do you mean for ring 0 code?

For some reason I always thought templeOS was real mode.

TempleOS · on June 12, 2016

In simstructure I had a default element type. I recorded differences from the default.

TempleOS has LZW compression. http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Kernel/Compress.html#l1

cyphar · on June 13, 2016

I've often wondered. What is the license for TempleOS, is it free software?

icebraining · on June 13, 2016

The home page says it's in the public domain.

TempleOS · on May 29, 2014

To me abstraction above the hardware is like condoms. Some people say "Use three condoms, its better".

I don't want a literal C64 -- just the complete open simple access... but 64-bit and 3Ghz and multicored.

I don't want it to run on a 386, just x86_64.

EdSharkey · on May 30, 2014

Nothing quite so stark and sublime as hacking away with registers and memory alone, eh? Ring 0 is pretty cool place to be, I'll grant you that.

I think perhaps what I long for is the knowledge that I could gain a _total understanding_ of the hardware, ROM, timings - things were simple enough back in the day. The commodore 64 and other 8-bits are like that, and I've seen talks given on the c64 that seemed to lay bare every secret. I have so much respect for those hackers that know a device through and through with history and anecdotes related to the thing to add color to their own vast understanding.

TempleOS · on May 23, 2014

VGA has 6-bits of color.

FC FC FC is the max

when converting to 24-bit, what do you do?