This is nothing short of amazing. We can of course ramble about how this is unsuitable for a modern multitasking multi-user multi-use OS, but for an OS-as-a-tool, it's amazing. The simplicity of almost all characteristics makes programming and hacks a lot more accessible. Nothing really encumbers you from getting a job done, even if your solution is a hack.

The sort of unbridled, interactive access is very reminiscent of a Lisp machine. Most things are dynamic, almost everything is changeable. The Lisp machine likewise wasn't a good multi-* OS, but it is probably the best OS-as-a-tool ever made.

Terry seems to be doing well, which is nice to see.

I'm not making fun here, but I honestly want to see him going to the VMWare's office and demanding that they implement his RedSea filesystem on pain of eternal damnation.

I'm not sure who would down vote you, he literally says this in the video.

Warning: OT

CyberDildonics is quite the amusing account: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=CyberDildonics

It appears to be used extensively for posting comments just like this one!

Personally, I am a fan.

I wish the industry culture was fun enough to actually implement it.

Perhaps someone could sneak it in as "further support for FAT32 variants." According to Terry, RedSea is "similar to FAT32, but with absolute block addresses instead of clusters, fixed-sized 64-byte directory entries and no FAT table, just an allocation bitmap" [1].

[1]: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/RedSea.html

What could vmware possibly have done to deserve that.

looks awesome, need to warm up my TempleOS vm again. I was surprised the task working directory is a string and not a pointer to a directory node or something. Also curious what's going on with the `CMathODE *next_ode` member of CTask, I know TempleOS contains a numerical ODE solver but why is it part of the kernel?

Great to see Terry again!

i like the "we have the divine right to access ..."!