What does /code/ think of LoseThos? (5)

1 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2010-11-21 18:47 ID:F3fvSSfC

http://losethos.com/

From the introduction:

>Trivial Solutions's LoseThos operating system is for recreational programming.
>Maybe, you're a professional programmer who does hobby projects?
>Maybe, you're a teenager who programs in your spare time?
>Maybe, you're an older person who is not a professional, but likes to program for fun? LoseThos is here to offer joy to programmers.

Features:

  • 64-bit x86, preemptive multitasking, kernel with multicore support. For

Core_i7, Core_2_Duo, Pentium_D... nothing worse than a
Pentium_4_Extreme_Edition.

  • 64-bit compiler/assembler. Nothing is "interpreted."
  • Free, public domain, and 100% open source.
  • Source files and the command line window can have graphics, links, icons,

trees, colors, super/sub scripts, margins. Everything is seamless through-out
the tool chain. No need for separate resource files.

  • Just-in-time compilation. No need for object or exe files.
  • Graphics in source code. No need for resource files.
  • 64-bit pointers. All memory, even more than 4 Gig, can be directly accessed

by all tasks on all cores at all times.

  • Highest CPU privileged mode at all times. No off-limits instructions. No

time lost changing modes or address maps. Switches tasks in half a microsecond.

  • CD/DVD reading and writing, ISO9660 file system.
  • 640x480 16 color VGA graphics.
  • Boot loaders for CD-ROM and hard disk.
  • Keyboard & mouse support.
  • Hard drives, support for FAT32 and LoseThos native file systems with file

compression.

  • 2D/3D Graphics library
  • Real-time fancy differential-equation solver (physics engine) for use in

games. Adaptive step-size Runge-Kutta, interpolated for real-time.

  • Tools/utilities including profiler, merge and diff.
  • HD Audio and many songs.
  • Demos and documentation.
  • All source code included. Only compiles with the included LoseThos compiler

and assembler.

2 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2010-11-22 02:14 ID:Heaven

Very boring.

3 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2010-11-22 09:02 ID:Heaven

I don't think programming would be very recreational if I were to accommodate the variety of ways in which he's whimsically violated the C/C++ standards.

4 Name: Mr. Vile!l9/dToUs32 : 2010-11-22 09:04 ID:Heaven

I'll stick with Plan 9.

5 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2010-11-29 19:44 ID:vTqlJHTl

Funny how can you put "nothing is interpreted" and "just in time compilation" in a single post.
I think many of the advertised features are in fact huge drawbacks for an OS and if it was to become anything more than a fun project they'd need to go away.

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