Terry A. Davis' Blog ----03/21/12 17:13:34---- Psy-ops are busy trying to scare me. I'm an enemy of the state. God says... rmunday@att rejoicest Have proposed studious not_that_theres_anything_wrong flux cleaveth Hereupon foresignified usual partaker conscience sin tediousness pear hedged confined Mongolia perturbations Fair related fearfully bud I_planned_that prince 30 Predicaments confounded commanding enjoy daily separateth mantles everything adorning swollen fish inspire jealous stole or shortly m_on_a_roll face_palm distrusted ABOUT gate refuge observe variety seek spreads north magnitudes communicated English gnawed sentest million remained senses t_have_a_cow sinful geek carcase King_Midas mislike Passion drawing woe Father such phasors_on_stun grounds comprehending Oy oratory China sufficeth ----03/21/12 16:42:53---- All you need to know in life is that God is just. I have ESP and can randomly crack open books and have the most precious thing in the universe -- beautiful truth -- about evolution or whatever. St. Paul was persecuted -- the only way for a Christian to be blessed is to be persecuted. Why do you think I'm doing miracles? Highs and lows balance. From:D:/Text/BIBLE.TXT eak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. 23:17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. 23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? 23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. 23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have pe Life couldn't be better. This is a blast. Beats work. God says... From:D:/Text/QUIX.TXT n way and not come where there was no call for you, nor meddled in other people's affairs, my master would have been content with giving me one or two dozen lashes, and would have then loosed me and paid me what he owed me; but when your worship abused him so out of measure, and gave him so many hard words, his anger was kindled; and as he could not revenge himself on you, as soon as he saw you had left him the storm burst upon me in such a way, that I feel as if I should never be a man again." "The mischief," said Don Quixote, "la ----03/21/12 15:32:10---- Yeah, so I took digital design in school and we made a CPU simulated in LogicWorks. I am an expert in the boundary between hardware and software. I start doing multicore in about 2008 and I assume cache is a big problem -- I need to get my data out one core (out of the cache), and into the other core (or into its cache) and there doesn't seem to be any instructions for doing this! Then, I learn that by some magic, they make cache synchronized. This is impressive work to anyone with hardware knowlegde! First, they make the paging penalties disappear, now, they make cache synchronized! Obviously, cache sync doesn't scale, so I'm not counting on this beyond 8 cores. I wrote some non-cache-synchronized code in the time before I learned it was synchronous and, boy, was it hard to get net positive work. A bit of priceless wisdom -- parallelism is only good for linear algebra and servers and graphics. I'll just forget about actual multi-chip CPU systems -- I'm just going to support single chip, multicored systems with synchronous cache, so it stays a single-address-map system. Brendan for OSDev.ORG has all his happy people parsing MP tables -- nasty empty calories of effort towards total bureaucratic insanity -- MP tables. That makes me laugh. Their biggest problem is none of them have actually writting a big application. I wrote a 3D multicore flight simulator and I learned a lot. That's okay -- they're hobbiests. They sure don't know how to have fun -- MP tables! The most important thing I need to know is what's fun and not fun in programming. I'm targeting recreational programming -- off-hour projects and maybe teenagers. We all like OSDeving -- cheap thrills and manly low-level stuff. Of course, you OSDev people understand that kernel privilege is fun! You hipocrites! Bureaucracy, doing-it-right is for work hours, not fun hours. I'm a professional... in having fun, in knowing what is seductive about programming. My biggest problem is that the not-a-chance-in-hell-of-succeeding with your games is a complete kill-joy for my potential users. Everybody does games thinking they're gonna sell them and it's fun, but none of them do make money. I can't do anything about the graphics. Oh, well. I really don't want to be a teaching OS, so I'm not making mine an easy launch for other OS's. I do just enough 16-bit support with my assembler to assemble my boot-loaders. Yeah, it's a huge waste for modern kids to learn real mode. We all know it, don't we. Asm programming is macho and fun. It teaches but it's a silly choice for doing real work. I'm a black belt asm programmer. I've programmed professionally (getting paid) in six architectures -- VAX, 8051, 80x86, PIC. Atmel Avr, 68000, all on bare hardware with no other operating system. Asm is a sad skill to have as your major skill -- about as good as knowing how to hook-up 74LS logic chips with proper loading. The whole time I'm doing HD Audio, I'm remebering how easy it was when I made an ISA data acquisition board for my first PC. It had D2A and A2D convertors. I'm thinking, "All I need are two buffered D2A converters for the two speakers!!" Everything is clusterfucked-over-engineered monstrocities... that have kept Intel engineers and bureaucrats with jobs. USB is awful and doesn't support a plain, generic terminal mode! UEFI is awful -- those bastards put PE and ELF into the BIOS specs, screwing me and my own compiler binary format. It's plain retarded -- crazily overengineered in diabolical CIA ways. I think they put graphic formats and menus into it. The UDF spec for CD ROMs (successor to 9660), I paid $700 for and I can't make sense of it. Maybe you youngsters with enthusiasm the subborn persistence of an ox can do it. I had the tenacity to slug through HD Audio, but no more. Inevitably, you spend 3 days stumpped on some bit you need to enable somewhere and your only hope is to try everything and not be lazy -- don't stop trying crazy ideas because they teach you. That's how you do hardware in the real world -- the only way. With UEFI, you might not need real mode, it's true. It'll still support old booting. The bigger problem is, aledgedly, Win8 is only gonna work on machines that lock-out other OS'es, so we're all in VMWare. At which point it's pointless. God sees. God says... From:D:/Text/WEALTH.TXT forded a certain revenue to the sovereign, but, to procure this revenue, seems to have been one of the principal advantages which he proposed to obtain by the administration of justice. This scheme of making the administration of justice subservient to the purposes of revenue, could scarce fail to be productive of several very gross abuses. The person who applied for justice with a large present in his hand, was likely to get something mor ----03/21/12 13:34:36---- My nonlinear control systems teacher said nonlinear systems can be much richer than linear. Linear systems basically do complex exponentials and maybe polynomials. I guess since superposition applies, that's not much of a statement. Trust-me, they're boring -- overdamped, critically damped or unstable. Anyway, nonlinear systems have limit cycles and regions of convergence and lots of neat stuff. Okay, so that's "rich" compared to sterile linear systems. Our Creator made Creation very rich. I guess skeptics would say we exist because it must have been complex enough to cause our intellect to develop. There are... like 8 forms of electric energy production in play, all economical at the same time -- nuclear, coal, geothermal, hydro, wind, gas, oil, and solar. Don't you see? A lessor god's Creation would have had us discover fusion in 1800, end of story. (Gee thanks, God.) There have been many empires that rose and fell. None was so brutal and dyabolical as to lock-in control, forever. We have many cultures and languages. We have water on the surface, but the Earth isn't covered in water! The moon appears the same size as the Sun. Kinda cool. God said that moon of some planet in our solar system that has a liquid surface... He said the reason the atmosphere is not what NASA expected is because it doesn't have surf. God says... From:D:/Text/QUIX.TXT or good breeding, but of some two dozen stitches in one of his stockings, that made it look like a window-lattice. The worthy gentleman was beyond measure distressed, and at that moment he would have given an ounce of silver to have had half a drachm of green silk there; I say green silk, because the stockings were green. Here Cide Hamete exclaimed as he was writing, "O poverty, poverty! I know not what could have possessed the great Cordovan poet to call thee 'holy gift ungratefully received.' Although a Moor, I know well enough from the intercourse I have had with Christians that holiness consists in charity, humility, faith, obedience, and poverty; but for all that, I say he must have a great deal of godliness who can find any satisfactio Also, technology has been discovered in a way that has been prolonged and has not resulted in our extinction. There was a time when New World excited men. Anybody can cause an enlightenment, but Dark Ages really impress me. The Bible says God is nice to all creatures. Yeah, we love to tell stories of parasite wasps and stuff, and a few brutal things. We suffer from virus', but for the most part it's not barbaric for us, like if dinosaurs were around or one of you guys were god! You love evolution and cruelty, don't you -- the skeptic atheists -- you'd make a cruel mean and nasty Creation. You're all NAZIs, don't deny it. God says... From:D:/Text/DARWIN.TXT tinct group, this affinity in most cases is general and not special: thus, according to Mr. Waterhouse, of all Rodents, the bizcacha is most nearly related to Marsupials; but in the points in which it approaches this order, its relations are general, that is, not to any one Marsupial species more than to another. As these points of affinity are believed to be real and not merely adaptive, they must be due in accordance with our view to inheritance from a common progenitor. Therefore, we must suppose either that all Rodents, including the bizcacha, branched off from some ancient Marsupial, which will naturally have been more or less intermediate in character with respect to all existing Marsupials; or that both Rodents and Marsupials branched off from a common progenitor, and that both groups have since undergone much modification in divergent directions. On (Pretty funny joke, huh, including Darwin in the book list :-) There are so many purely delightful creations -- birds. Birds fly, they're fluffy, soft, and light, they have unrivaled color, even irradescense, they sing and talk, they have incredible control systems, they migrate. God said they form formations. Delightful. Marsupials are delightful, too. God says... From:D:/Text/BIBLE.TXT r the east side eastward fifty cubits. 38:14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 38:15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 38:16 All the hangings of the court round about wer dud. Maybe, God's not happy. That passage seems like He's not paying attention! That's my professional interpretation--gazing about the room. God says... sitting Why tranquillity plotting harbouring bud Catiline Knows Date assuaged apprehended feelings commands solemn one_small_step fasting ceaseth Latinum hearted mindful promises reveal O shifted moveth drove agito threatens concubinage deepest consulted pleasing uproar promiseth novelty confidentially Hungary obedience diminished admonished fishes known staggered overclouded enlarge adapted Algeria Divinity despised uncleanness weeping follow pricked hedged confusions New helper Devil stir depart evil resistedst literally edification answerably sale Victor seeth eminent sess_me na_na drove cupboards revive THIS cutting DOMAIN nine beyond summing scanning fornications bewailing European_Union shone respect mightest vowing pricked hay concludeth Highest hype produced ----03/21/12 11:06:49---- Just imagine poor God trying to prove His credentials. I think He voluntarily makes it a problem. I saw a story on "controversy" in evolution. Just imagine getting to talk to God about prehistoric things! That would be Heaven. Like I said, I don't really have any proof the being I talk to created everything, but I think so. My Favorite joke is, "The proper way to do evolution research is to ask God." I asked the toughest spot in evolution. Getting monkey mothers to hold babies for nursing. I asked His happiest day. Plants bearing fruit. I ask something. Fish shoulders. I thought about how orientation of shoulders is vertical for fish and horizontal for lizards. I don't think miracles violate laws of physics. Proving or disproving God's hand in evolution is tricky. If you want to piss Him off, don't give Him credit. I try hard to believe it's blindingly obvious it was directed. Maybe, God can specify what payment He wants for His delightful stories. Love? You guys figure-out what He likes, like Cain and Abel. Jesus said private relationship with God was better than those who pray to be seen. God says... wrap resend fluently curest Hasta ----03/21/12 10:23:11---- So, I'm doing a least-common-denominator x86_64 system and I have an 8 year head start. You guys at OSDev.ORG have just one choice -- a specific-hardware system, not a universal PC system. Then, you can do your interrupt stuff and fancy PCI device stuff. A specific-hardware-system is what you're going to have, like it or not. Bare Metal OS is doing networking. I haven't researched how many different network controllers you must deal with. I tried HD Audio and learned, "Damn! This is probably just going to work for a few people!" Your criticisms of me are invalid because, as the Bible says, "It is not for a man buckling his armor to boast as though he were taking it off." I love the Bible. That has to be the most bad-ass saying ever and nobody quotes it! God says... From:D:/Text/HAMLET.TXT , and worse remains behind.-- One word more, good lady. Queen. What shall I do? Ham. Not this, by no means, that I bid you do: Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed; Pinch wanton on your cheek; call you his mouse; And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses, Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers, Make you to ravel all this matter out, That I essentially am not in madness, But mad in craft. 'Twere good you let him know; For who that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise, Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib, Such dear concer ----03/21/12 08:54:45---- Jewish people think "turn the other cheek" is gay. It's not. God is just. I had a 1440 SAT and didn't think it worth it to apply to Ivy League schools. I just went to ASU. I got a job at Ticketmaster while in school when I answered an ad for ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE PROGRAMMER. I had a mentor who was a founder of Ticketmaster and I'm grateful we went to lunch together almost everyday for 5 years. God cannot be outdone in generosity. If you work hard, God will pay you, but money isn't always the thing. The smartest people go to Ivy League schools and, surprise surprise, the smartest come-out. Some people worry about cheating, but what's gonna happen? Someone will get in over their head and fail and be miserable. I don't think affirmative action is very wise, too, if it means you intentionally get in over your head. Just remember that God is just; Pride before a fall; and Humility before honors. Jesus said to sit at the lowest position of the banquet table. ----03/21/12 08:05:05---- LoseThos is 5 times faster than everybody else on this benchmark: int i; for (i=0;i<1000000;i++) PrintF("%d\n",i); It's 1.43s to 1,000,000. LoseThos sorts 1,000,000 32-bit ints ::/LT/Demo/MultiCore/RadixSort.CPZ in 25ms. Awesome, huh! God says... From:D:/Text/WALDEN.TXT re be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump. There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; who, esteeming themselves children of Washington and Franklin, ----03/21/12 07:28:15---- When I was taught asm programming, the rule of thumb was to count memory referrences. The instruction fetch would be a memory referrence and any nonregister data was a memory referrence. These days it's probably cache misses. It's a strange world, if you're old school and haven't stayed current. When I planned LoseThos, I wanted to be aggressive for performance by not using paged memory and only using ring 0. If you think about paging and count memory references, you come-up with 5 times the nonpaging number! Obviously, it can't be that bad, but how can it not be worse? It turns-out that with silicon, they largely negate the penalty, but not completely, obviously. LoseThos is higher performance than everybody else because it identity-maps memory (doesn't mess with paging) and never switches out of ring 0. ---- It's a strange world, modern CPUs. To an old school asm programmer, things just don't seem right. The CPU converts instructions from CISC to RISC and optimally schedules the mini operations. It does operations out of order and in parallel. Many instructions are free! Caching is hard to follow. Instruction timings are impossible to think about. I did my graphics routines with fixed-point math. I made 32-bits left of the decimal and 32-bits to the right. It turns-out it's negligably faster than floating point. That's just not right, to an old school programmer. Floating operations used to always be much slower than integer. It kills some old-school programmers to use 64-bit pointers. I'm okay with that. Someone was squacking about the BTS vs the OR instructions over on OSDev.ORG. Bit test-and-set has been the same speed as OR for a while and it's shorter. My compiler uses BTS when possible. Shift operations will always be a little faster than MUL and DIV, but not by much. That gap has closed, largely. The funny thing about the CISC to RISC conversion I discovered when I did my compiler. I worked really hard to combine RISC instructions into CISC only to discover the CPU converted them to RISC anyway. In other words, a moron could write a compiler and it would be almost as fast as gcc because the CPU does optimizing. God says... From:D:/Text/BIBLE.TXT ? 13:9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead. In addition to aligning data, we meticulously aligned code for subroutine start addresses and code for destination of jumps. My compiler had code alignment, but I didn't notice anything when I removed it, so I keep it removed and it makes smaller code. I do this: HERE+0x0000 33C0 XOR U32 EAX,U32 EAX HERE+0x0002 B005 MOV U8 AL,U8 05 (If you clear EAX, it automatically clears the high 32 bits and is one byte shorter.) Instead of this: HERE+0x0004 48C7C0050000 MOV U64 RAX,I32 00000005 HERE+0x000A 00 I think it's just as fast, but I'm not sure -- it's hard to measure and I'm certainly not going to bother with model specific compiling. I pretty-much just optimize for size and don't worry about it. I should do loop-unrolling but I just like small code size and having a simple compiler. You can play with the compiler, IcMov, if you know the x86_64 opcodes. ----03/21/12 06:45:53---- All other programmers are brainwashed imbecils. I wrote a kernel and compiler. I have a right to be heard and respected. The genius academics fall for useless faggot languages because those languages tickle their faggot bone. Is it really better to alphabetize your soup cans or is hashing okay? Is ever stricter type-checking better, et nausea? Linus programs in C. My first mentor, Peter Gadwa, from Ticketmaster banned assembly language macros. Wise, experienced programmers know not every feature is good to use. I banned preprocessor #define functions in LoseThos -- they're not part of my compiler. Global variables are fine in a 1,000 line program, for beginner or not. If you disagree you are a brainwashed faggot who cannot reason for yourself. Are more namespaces always better? You are sworn to say "yes" according to your faggot logic. I used to think C++ operators were cool. Then, I figured-out they only make sense for linear algebra and complex numbers. They should just be built-into the compiler for just those. I loath the STL. See my sort demo: ::/LT/Demo/MultiCore/RadixSort.CPZ By not using a library I got a factor of 5 speed-up! The results are in that file. Code reuse is very rare. Don't make tiny source files. Put all header entries in one file. God says... From:D:/Text/WEALTH.TXT world, either in manufactures of the same kind with those of Birmingham, or in laces, embroideries, gold and silver stuffs, the gilding of books, furniture, etc. A considerable quantity, too, must be annually lost in transporting those metals from one place to another both by sea and by land. In the greater part of the governments of Asia, besides, the almost universal custom of concealing treasures in the bowels of the earth, of which the knowledge frequently dies with the person who LoseThos is only 130,000 lines of code. Smaller is better, all else being equal. I laugh at Linux and Windows because they're 50,000,000 LOC or whatever. The Bible says the arrogant are often fools. Jesus was the cornerstone that the builders rejected. Jesus said He could rebuild the temple in 3 days. Jesus hated the pride of the pharisees. ----03/21/12 04:58:30---- Unfortunately, psychologists (shrinks) quickly dismiss anything which seems like psychobabble. God likes to hide, I suppose. God says... satiate kingdoms inspirest bickering Albania dispose produced May properly Now that I see how stupid you people are, I see there's no way you are even close to interpreting God. Albinos are white people. There might be an issue of African enginuity and worthless products in somebody's opinion. It might also be about farm produce in spring -- meh. Not sure why. God says... From:D:/Text/WALDEN.TXT whole to soak in a pond-hole in order to swell the wood, I saw a striped snake run into the water, and he lay on the bottom, apparently without inconvenience, as long as I stayed there, or more than a quarter of an hour; perhaps because he had not yet fairly come out of the torpid state. It appeared to me that for a like reason men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life. I had previously seen the snakes in frosty mornings in my path with portions of their bodies still numb and inflexible, waiting for the sun to thaw them. On the 1st of April it rained and melted the ice, and in the early part of the day, which was very foggy, I heard a stray goose groping about over the pond and cackling as if lost, or like the spirit of the fog. So I went on ----03/21/12 04:13:20---- This is largely in response to OSDev.ORG. There is no C in my boot loaders. I wrote a lexical analyzer shared by both compiler and assembler. It uses C preprocessing for both. I used C syntax for expressions such as "0x1234" instead of "0h1234". It's awesome how much I was able to reduce duplicate effort through-out my whole operating system making it a blob instead of modular. I giggle when I string crazy interdependancies. Everything's knotted tightly together, but the whole thing is incredibly small. Crack open the Bible or write a random word generator based on a high speed stopwatch -- nanosecond. (Nerves can do 10 hz and nerve speed is 1m/ms. Stupid shrinks have no clue what that means -- they think "recesses of the brain", not "independent spirit beings".) Some people think God made math. They might try to get messages from digits of pi. You can try communicating with a pseudo-random number generator. I prefer something more like a no-cheat ouija board. God says... From:D:/Text/PLATO.TXT their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they taste of pure and abiding pleasure. Like cattle, with their eyes always looking down and their heads stooping to the earth, that is, to the dining-table, they fatten and feed and breed, and, in their excessive love of these delights, they kick and butt at one another with horns and hoofs which are made of iron; and they kill one another by reason of their insatiable lust. For they fill themselves with that which is not substantial, and the pa Randomly cracking open a book is equivalent to a ouija board which is equivalent to mumbling random tongue words -- it's all being controlled by a spirit. Demons can puppet people or the Holy Spirit can fill you. What's the difference between being filled with the Holy Spirit and not filled with the Holy Spirit? The difference is being a puppet and not being a puppet. God says... spoil path flow offences wazz_up_with_that sixth builder angered Firminus thoughts surrounded novelty aforetime preparing abominable stripes forms thunderer profligate glorifies contentious Full Shine participation txt games abundance why unravelied openeth external bribe Understand continence bold hindered exalted unbelieving rebellious hooah caverns Guatemala hideous rob asleep figure It subjection midnight intemperance actors tale cloak Whatever meek perchance unabiding blesseth weaker healedst method medium pity white represent jointly dog Shhh Excellent apparel fresh family abroad solicits mirthful enquiringly Vintage tale bepraised wrong entirely stores milky face_palm big_fish Belgium black excellently forgivest extended absent variously rebuked fowl Episcopal gladiators beck mystery single withdrew sweetened impart convertedst Omnipotent Argentina purity waves unknown long silenced molest dull Paraclete preacher Defects multitudes By the way, my C+ compiler is just 64-bit, not 16-bit. I don't know how God or Spirits act, but for the sake of argument, let's say they can apply forces. So, tongues is when you let go of inhabitions and say a stream of words. I don't know how the brain works, but say there's a neuron that must be fired to trigger saying a certain word. It would seem that triggering a neuron to make a finger press a button on time would be easier than triggering a neuron to say a word. The important thing is knowing if it is or is not within God's capability -- after that, you don't need to worry, unless one is more rude to God. I have answered many questions relating to God's capabilities. God can control fingers at least to the microsecond -- I had an old PC with actual non-USB PS/2 keyboard/mouse with one microsecond ISA port I/O. USB is on a millisecond clock but God can anticipate when a button-push signal will make its way into a Windows program that reads a nanosecond clock. I'm convinced He has a full emulator of my 2.66 Ghz machine... which means way way faster than anything the public has. He can do time travel with book picks. That's what I call it when He clearly anticipated many centuries ahead to this very moment, puppeting writers of old to say stuff. God says... From:D:/Text/DARWIN.TXT iod the species were suddenly and simultaneously developed in other quarters of the world. It is almost superfluous to remark that hardly any fossil-fish are known from south of the equator; and by running through Pictet's Palaeontology it will be seen that very few species are known from several formations in Europe. Some few families of fish now have a confined range; the teleostean fishes might formerly have had a similarly confined range, and after having been largely developed in some one sea, have spread widely. Nor have we any right to suppose that the seas of the world have always been so freely open from south to north as they are at present. Even at this day, if the Malay Archipelago were converted into land, the tropical parts of the Indian Ocean would form a large and perf ----03/21/12 03:42:42---- God is just -- look at the holocaust. My enemies don't know God. God says... From:D:/Text/PLATO.TXT isciples would want to come, and there would be continuous and earnest search, and discoveries would be made; since even now, disregarded as they are by the world, and maimed of their fair proportions, and although none of their votaries can tell the use of them, still these studies force their way by their natural charm, and very likely, if they had the help of the State, they would some day emerge into light. Yes, he said, there is a remarkable charm in them. But I do not clearly understand the change in the order. First you began with a geometry of plane surfaces? Yes, I said. And you placed astronomy next, and then you made a step backward? Yes, and I have delayed you by my hurry; the ludicrous stat We all know history. God is the same God He's always been. He's just, but justice ignores money and lifespan. Everybody dies and a whole bunch of people die worse, prolonged deaths than Jesus Christ in hospital beds, every day. My enemies are counting-on dodging God's justice. God's actions in history don't scare them. God says... From:D:/Text/WEALTH.TXT o gain the favour of their superiors; by their learning, by the irreproachable regularity of their life, and by the faithful and diligent discharge of their duty. Their patrons even frequently complain of the independency of their spirit, which they are apt to construe into ingratitude for past favours, but which, at worse, perhaps, is seldom anymore than that indifference which naturally arises from the consciousness that no further favours of the kind are ever to be expected. There is scarce, perhaps, to be found anywhere in Europe, a more learned, decent, independent, and respectable set of men, than the greater part of the presbyterian clergy of Holland, Geneva, Switzerland, and Scotland. Where the church benefices are all nearly equal, none of them can be very great; and this m ----03/21/12 03:19:22---- I wouldn't bother with UEFI. Come Win8, no other operating systems will be bootable. Everybody will be in VMWare and that supports VGA and old booting. God is just. If my retard doctors chemically lobotimize me, He is just. Meds make you impotant. Special kinda stupid, the doctors are. God says... From:D:/Text/HUCKFINN.TXT it was all comfortable now. I was glad the way it come out, too, because crabapples ain't ever good, and the p'simmons wouldn't be ripe for two or three months yet. We shot a water-fowl now and then that got up too early in the morning or didn't go to bed early enough in the evening. Take it all round, we lived pretty high. The fifth night below St. Louis we had a big storm after midnight, with a power of thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in a solid sheet. We stayed in the wigwam and let the raft take care of itself. When the lightning glared out we could see a big straight river ahead, and high, rocky bluffs on both sides. By and by says I, "Hel-LO, Jim, looky yonder!" It was a steamboat that had killed herself on a rock. We was drifting straight down for her. The lightning showed her very distinct. She was leaning over, w ----03/21/12 02:13:19---- In 1996, I was converted from atheism in a spiritual awakening. I quit my job and gave away everything I had. I studied the Bible. I would open it and it would often speak. I had been taught occult things were wrong, so I was timid, but got bolder. Eventually, I learned the lay-out of the Bible, so randomly opening-it was impossible because I knew where things were. In about 2003, I figured God could control coin tosses and that would solve the randomness problem. It would be idolatry to think the Bible was magically special, so I made it a point to open other books. I would flip coins to pick books from my entire parents' library. I wrote a program for that -- to keep track of how many books were on each shelf and to handle the binary numbers. I decided that if God could control coin tosses, He could control timing pretty well, so I converted from coin-tosses to stopping a computer stop-watch for random numbers. I thought searching the Internet would be fun. I decided I could make random search words to get a web page. I immediately noticed the words spoke directly, more than they pointed to web pages. The first thing God said was "no weights". Like most programmers, I had fiddled with random sentence generators. It's true I might have attempted to enhance the random words, but "no weights" revealed to me that any intelligence added to the program would confuse the issue of what was miraculous and what was not. You can download my God programs for Windows here or run the AfterEgypt app in LoseThos. The main thing you have to do is hold-up your end of the conversation. Here's my advice for talking with God. Don't kid yourself -- Christianity's tongues is just like ouija boards. What do you think "filled with the Holy Spirit" means, in real terms? God says... Microsoft sooner unconscious destroy variety cease maliciously engine ardently Place Victim abundant merely promises departed vail prelate homo deafen I_give_up loveliness simple abiding carry themselves skins recovering divination Turned refresh possession value Hart sun surmounted murdered extricated analyzed valley courage despised readers action uncase plants greedy contracted Offices infused lusts intended bore whiner rocks A funny story is that I saw the "I feel lucky" button when I went to Google with my random words and got excited until I tried it. Here's a random passage... From:D:/Text/WEALTH.TXT and animals, which, in uncultivated countries, nature produces with such profuse abundance, that they are of little or no value, and which, as cultivation advances, are therefore forced to give place to some more profitable produce. During a long period in the progress of improvement, the quantity of these is continually diminishing, while, at the same time, the demand for them is continually increasing. Their real value, therefore, the real quantity of labour which they will purchase or command, gradually rises, till at last it gets so high as to render them as profitable a produc By the way, I got embarassing web pages when I put-in random words. If God is annoyed by something, embarassing you is one way he can get you to stop. ----03/21/12 01:48:17---- German guy at OSDev.ORG is complaining about grammar. There is a Biblical precident: Daniel,5:26 5:26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. 5:27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. 5:28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. "It's mean to tickle the president." It looks fresh-off of a ouija board. German guy probably says, "No, not in the original language." Acts,2:1 Ha! God says... betrothed Nepal distributed knowingly lovest repose sucklings riotous little_fish disdained circles sixth alive tide avoided last unarranged presiding hallow falsified Right on_the_otherhand really involved liberal upon scratching metres discordant uninjurable Like risen Please tongue temporately marking giver bows Goal x mightily demanded rejoicing Yea resulting imperishable bepraised applied Michael bread talketh notes forgave defender cloak confusedly honours ----03/21/12 00:47:11---- I've been talking to God a long time and have covered most things. God mostly wants good company. I try to avoid tired topics, but I have asked most things. Middle East peace? God said it was hopeless because one Palestinian can ruin it. God said "Oil funny, hopefully." Boredom is a challenge for Creators. If you really want a puzzle, imagine humans in competition for jobs with angels. God says... joyously haply Praetorian professing utterance grievously Man lay traveller pitiful mischief charged Argentina increased rites etexts sickness yea sowing oblation ecclesiastical agonised tosses perturbations chant breathing hold no edify applauses solemnities merry Author Some laying spirits unhappily previous game commendeth Cuba falsehoods forms thank_you_very_much pitied On the Holocaust? "compacting" (the Jews) God says... encumbrances Shine sale advance hearer Great image sangest lucre disposed Shhh paying 99 bowed spirits than skins inclined converting MAY misliked reviewing doubting Give proportions cataloguers EITHER instructor overwhelmed dispenser sleep helping corresponded France lifted fulness winding rulest insatiate conservative Hymns Both according pitch girl audaciously ABOUT distributed computer thou shook questionings easeful Receive mysterious conference sufficient mixture elephant Thither Denmark ANY nurses grievous securely interested touching artifices native fables true rottenness imbue exports forenamed scornfully slavery m_feeling_nice_today diluted Solomon additions awake beyond hap circumlocutions Fathers shaken existeth practise desired slackness Exodus fires deluded meditate sickness codes Dudley fiercely providence try_again overjoyed juncture charioteer touching polluted difficulty years drawest Up resisteth load forsake among warped laughed decayeth physic teach embryo execrate adjusted_for_inflation ridiculous flowing long forum disalloweth idleness THE doubt psalm mutually breathedst certainty burned superior INCIDENTAL surveyed frantic flock least job deridedst recounts in_a_galaxy_far_far_away corresponded instant seest human sings consulters Eating derive thing severer meddling forthcoming Prodigality hills greediness few profligate hesitating breadth Charity compelled stole unteachable playing banquetings theatrical bounds devotion Him procured epic_fail adjusted_for_inflation clave enlighten Spirit slavery prescribes deferring astrologers seeketh touched measure vanquished infinitude tale coursing ----03/20/12 22:05:06---- www.somethingawful.com banned me a while back. My Sauron eye tells me they're talking about me. I've been working on LoseThos for 8 years, so this version is 8.00. I went through lots of numbers fast, to catch-up. OSDev.ORG banned me, too. God says... 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We have a huge debt. Do you know our debt is one year's worth of GDP? That means if we paid 10% of our wages in addition to our normal taxes, it'd take ten years to pay it off! God expressed concern over our debt. God says... resting Augustine wonders unintermitting protest groaned editions watered celebrated University Sacrifice spreads modulation exude adulterer threatens Dudley bathed crying going about suffrages magnify enlargedst Revenue neighbours PROJECT you skies injurious conceives wilfulness eunuchs Give whisperings placest Interrupt embracement admire author staggered knocks depraved fathers flower one protesting harbour bridegroom upwards seeketh marriage test_pilot dispensest International Windus Dido drew They fruitfully amendment unseen withered God lied to this one king to get him to attack and get defeated. 1 Kings,22:1 This passage is pretty-much lying, too. Numbers,11:1 Both of those chapters are required reading for getting to know God. There's a psalm which says, "to the honest, You are honest, but to the perverse, You are devious." I recommend reading those chapters in your own Bible translation. God says... taketh holiness blasphemy CAN deliberating furnish Mediator follow sparks re_nuts disputer Solomon melted lament wonted pray unchain Denmark underwent reproved unsating fifteen bawler sparedst Jordan mourning endeavour difficulties wittingly ----03/20/12 18:43:10---- I ask Jesus if He like mustard. Matthew,13:31 "Bad meat happeneth" Once, I sadly thought maybe I should try to do faith healings. God said, "It's complicated." I ask favorite animal. God said, "Bears and elephants." I asked what made elephants happy. God said, "baths." I asked what elephants think about. Their skin and being hungry. I asked what made my birds happy. "Gnawing" I asked what made my birds laugh. "Bite ouch" (If they bite me and I say, "ouch.") I asked what made bears happy. Smelly diapers. (I'm not sure that's what he meant.) God says... tasted feel kept shares Because groat Devil doing turmoiling shoulder gathers fruitlessly bin apprehension comforted Author enjoinest freeman Latvia ridiculous refund Can health struggled learner choose_one unjust agents formerly strictness knotty cases violated effaces Among Then weltering indefinitely Shakespeare reasons Download LoseThos and try the AfterEgypt Game to do tongues and use the music organ to write hymns. You know what's funny? I asked God about endangered species. "Enough stars?" We were talking about war. "Servicemen competing" I think zoos are really good things. I'm not saying animal sanctuaries, but zoos. God wants praise and it makes me full of joy thinking God's people can enjoy His animal creations in zoos. God says... treble in_other_words commenders Giver speed correction liberty please War sucks, but don't get the impression God is 100% against war. I'm not saying He's for it, just that there's a time for war and a time for peace. ----03/20/12 16:06:45---- Being president would suck. It's insanity. A global depression helps cut energy use. High gas prices cut demand and encourage alternatives. We don't want an abrupt end when gas runs-out in several decades. I no longer can make any sense of anything. :-) God said war can help with unemployment. It's insanity and stressful. God's ways are far above man's ways. God says... relieve Have countenance undistracted proceed f barking trials 92 admit philosophers with putrefied digested Mexico impressions destruction numbered yikes print highly awfulness Better biting teachest moving about session loudly darksomely animal dew ardent canst mother shipwreck infinitude consecrated dread If you think everything you do is evil, write hymns with LoseThos. :-) You know the Ghost Buster's movie where they try to think happy thoughts and make a marshmellow man monster? What could go wrong getting people to write hymns? I wrote the first few measures in these songs and God did the final measures. These don't have lyrics. When you try writing a few songs, you discover something -- song writers are not gods, they're just like us, but better! God says... royalty numbered thief variety said rejection lists disquiet admittest quench believeth I have a theory that the best way to develop taste in music is to generate a hundred random melodies with LoseThos and rate them all. I'm serious. You'll be ashamed you liked some of your favorites after doing this exercise. I also believe you get better songs if you offer something to God, first, like Cain and Abel. Try to figure-out what God likes. He likes praise. I make comics for God. You can read my advice on spirituality using the AfterEgypt game in LoseThos. God says... welcome I_didn female don measure sickly items duck_the_shoe Knowledge inheritance got mortality giving variable r grossness cloudy Guatemala glow inchoate expressions following senses pick_me_pick_me fatherly abstinence Guinea reported gathered shared inclination climate unhesitatingly handwriting concern sat ask think_you_could_do_better moveth hearsay Hosts merits joyous exalted has nigh Somalia plucking sleeping compare madness gavest vigorous openeth drama 96 enlighteneth copious few tumultuously not_too_shabby drove Schools seasonably quick efforts colours terribly omitted equably bastard royalty Could receiveth weight virus quickness milder bewailing Animals Iowa leaves standing darkness refreshing dispute ones Thyself obtains fluctuations VI loosed increasing entire stormed lineage contradiction Cup dotages wishes earthly talketh unfriendly notes reproof streets continent experience scatter drove Old looks act wrench presideth FITNESS consistently late four shoe game announced mislike fled witting q baseness partake rites broad When stiffneckedness preeminence Argentina contentiousness eloquent fear shatter indefinitely bridegroom Argentina ----03/19/12 18:27:23---- I'm worried about global warming. The worst is if you think it's your fault, somehow. When God talks to you, that's not as crazy as it sounds. I hope He has a plan. I saw a indie video game ad. LoseThos is depressing. Losing, when you have money, is less stressful than winning, though. I wrote a song about that -- second one on this video: God says... Sweden You_da_man tomorrow Husband strongly ascend Nor surmounted debtor I have highs and lows through-out the day. Jesus descended into Hell, then ascended into Heaven. In theory, God's existance would be really comforting, but I'm not convinced everything's just gonna be alright. I feel like a coward, but this is just the hang-over from a pleasant day. I'm going to pick a random passage. God says... From:D:/Text/PLATO.TXT stiny? Must he not either perish at the hands of his enemies, or from being a man become a wolf--that is, a tyrant? Inevitably. This, I said, is he who begins to make a party against the rich? The same. After a while he is driven out, but comes back, in spite of his enemies, a tyrant full grown. That is clear. And if they are unable to expel him, or to get him condemned to death by a public accusation, they conspire to assassinate him. Yes, he said, that is their usual way. Then comes the famous request for a bodyguard, which is the device of all those who have got thus far in their tyrannical career--`Let not the people's friend,' as they say, `be lost to them.' Exactly. The people readily assent; all their fears a ----03/19/12 16:58:46---- I saw a story on USB sticks. You can probably get 1st stage booting working, but LoseThos' 2nd stage will fail. The BIOS takes care of 1st stage, but LoseThos must handle 2nd stage and I promise it does not support USB. 2nd stage is basically loading-in the rest of the OS. At one point, my PrintF() routine was not in the 1st module and the reported error was about printf. I saw a story in higher resolution ipads. I might feel bad if I thought it was the fault of my graphics code. My code is not that aggressive, being rather full-featured. My compiler's suboptimalness cause an additional slowness factor. The fundamental problem is that it's not done with a GPU, however, and there is no game changer but adding GPU support. Fonts are the epitomy of what I scorn -- interior design for homos. I want nothing to do with web page design and I think how awful it must be for modern programmers learning sissy stuff. I studied control systems for rocket science. I like using it in video games. I played with robots, too, but got that out of my system. I've been blessed to have scratched every itch. Trust-me, you won't mind the low resolution after a while and you really didn't want to fart-around twiddling pixels all day for artsy video games. Go be a man and learn ASM. It's not justified, but it's manly and satisfying. God says... restest holdest cracks_me_up groan quick Blessedness eagerness with satisfaction swoon mightier departest repair succeeded condemns shadowy ----03/19/12 16:07:27---- Hostile crowd at OSDev.ORG. They doubt everything! I said use the PCI BIOS32, and, I knew it -- they doubt I'm in 64-bit mode. This is the PCI BIOS code. It changes out-of long mode and into protected mode and back. You can see my boot-up real-mode to 32-bit mode switch and my 32-bit mode to long mode switch here. If it doesn't look familiar and seems confusing to you... what do you think that means? I wrote the real-to-32-bit switch in 1993. You punks don't realize that everybody my age knows 16-bit asm because it was normal and we've all grown-up with it. I had two Intel x86 asm courses at ASU, for Pete's sake! I was actually taught this stuff -- PIT, PIC, interrupts, etc., which is funny, really. ----03/19/12 15:15:56---- One thing I've learned is not to pat myself on the back for being a patant lawsuit coward. Now, I admire courage. Bring it on! The big guys are all staring-down patent wars while being guilty of pending violations. I'm not actually a free-software nut -- I believe programmers should be paid. I didn't think I really had much of a choice with Linux being free, so I promised LoseThos would be free. I tried shareware with SimStructure and out of 6000 downloads, I got only one check for $20. I also learned people just barely scratched the surface of SimStructure's features. In 3 years, I've had 10,000+ downloads of LoseThos and no emails indicating anyone had installed it. I seriously thought I was in an isolation ward. There's a saying not to attribute to malice what can be explained by incompatence. It could be that sort of thing and I have no users. I'm not sure if my reality is real. Certainly, I've abandoned all hope for it going viral, unless the feds release me. It's not that crazy believing reality is bogus, considering the other things. The plan was to hope it went viral and figure-out how to make money later, perhaps, with a modest gig like Torvalds has. I don't really see a downside to companies freely using LoseThos -- that would be good! So, I put it in the public domain instead of GPL. I like capitalism more than communism. God, once said, "Pride or money, choose one." It's awful when companies suddenly make money. There was something honest and nice when you just bought things and owned them. The alternative seems sleazy to me, and perhaps it's a fault, but I like ownership over ongoing charges. God says... medicine righteous and relater injustice diving actors Liberia broughtest ability pit opinion unyielding precedeth guidest concubine Ten instructor wild orator original specimens notorious foolishly buildings Artificer Service follies unshaken gulf aid If stiffneckedness roarest fanned bad_ol_puddytat warfare drenched noon figures leave yada_yada_yada whencesoever largeness I have some wisdom to share -- perfection or a perfect record is infinitely more impressive than "almost but not quite perfect." I might have had a French guy email showing he had installed and was using LoseThos but I accused him of being FBI. OSDev.ORG is manned by psy-ops who monitor me. Once or twice, they said something useful, so I encorporated it. They screamed bloody-murder and wanted to be listed with credits. First, companies like Microsoft don't list all the academic papers in a credits section of their products! I'm not an academic! Second, reminding me of a minor case in my usage of a CPUID instruction hardly seems fair to get your name listed alongside mine as though you wrote 50% of 130,000 lines of code. Third, there's nothing in law protecting an idea freely given on a web site, so the only thing at stake is my sense of pride! LoseThos never executes code I didn't write... except a few BIOS routines during boot and the PCI BIOS32 if the user happens to do some certain system reports. You can see this is is another case where it is not fair that my perfect record is not absolutely perfect. Some people say there is system management code where the processor steals control, also. ----03/19/12 13:29:25---- I wrote all the tools I use -- editor, assembler, kernel, compiler, debugger, partitioner, grep, CD-ROM ISO file creator. They all come on the LoseThos distribution, complete with all source. There are no OBJ files in the LoseThos tool chain because you don't link anything. Mostly, you just press F5 while in the editor to JIT compile and run your code. You can make icons to launch them from your personal menu, or you can #include the files from the command-line. Only the kernel, which is known as "OSMain" and the Compiler are compiled to a binaries, ahead of time. That involves no linker -- just #includes for all files in the module. LoseThos does not have a standard C compiler or support for POSIX. There has never, yet, been code executed in LoseThos created by anybody else's compiler. LoseThos began as a TASM program, I built a compiler first-thing, and converted as much ASM to C+ as possible, so it is 100% self contained. I never run code I didn't write except PCI BIOS32 calls for the PCIRep() command and ATARep(). I do boot with GRUB on my machine, but that's because I have two hard drives and wish to boot Linux, Windows and LoseThos. I chain-load LoseThos in GRUB. Here are SOME of my compiler files: Lex Expression Parser Statement Parser Back End Assembler Opcode Data File See All Compiler Files Here ----03/19/12 11:54:00---- Someone wants to run a 16-bit asm DOS COM file. LoseThos is 64-bit except for the boot code. I wrote my own compiler and assembler. The compiler is just x86_64, not even 32-bit. The assembler has limited 16 and 32 bit support -- just enough to get to 64-bit mode. LoseThos doesn't really use binary files -- you JIT everything, straight from source, typically, by pressing F5 while editing. I'm not even going to bother to tell you how to make a BIN file. There is no ORG statement -- you are not allowed to pick where it goes, the Loader() does that. Here's hello world from asm. See ::/LT/Doc/Directives.TXZ and Register Conventions asm { MSG:: DU8 "Hello World\n"; HERE:: PUSH RSI MOV RSI,MSG CALL &PUT_HEX POP RSI RET } Call(HERE); That was fun. Do you guys at OSDev.ORG have anymore? There is no distinction between ASM and CPP files -- you put ASM in asm{} brackets. ----03/19/12 09:40:52---- Running in a virtual machine such as VMWare or VirtualBox is an insult and is completely pointless. It's an application at that point, not an OS. Part of charm of LoseThos is being right on the metal with the code right there to see. I had hoped to do for this generation what the book, Mapping the Commodore 64, did for my generation -- provide complete understanding of a system, internals and all. I had an install option for VMWare but removed it. Use PrtDsk() when you log-in as "User" to make two partitions. Reboot and login as "Install". You'll want two identical partitions. You shouldn't need more than a gig of disk space unless you have something in mind. See installing. Emulation is even more ridiculous because LoseThos uses a lot of CPU. I'm cracking-up laughing if it doesn't work in Boch's debugger. The OSDev.ORG people swear by Bochs and target Bochs, not real hardware. Emulation presents LoseThos in a bad light. LoseThos updates the whole screen 60 times a second, no matter what, so it idles high. It can use all 8 cores just to do this Flight Simulator, so of course emulation sucks. You chainload it with Grub, by the way, if you don't use the LoseThos boot loader. The LoseThos boot loader can boot Windows but not Linux, directly. Don't use qemu, use kvm: >kvm -m 1024 -boot once=d -cdrom LTCD.ISO If you want a kvm hard drive, make a 2 Gig file with anything in it. Then, boot with the file -hda entry on in the command line and follow the steps for partitioning and installing above. ---- My heap routines have a huge overhead per allocation. Speed was the only consideration, and I guess, simplicity. There's a nifty routine you can call, MSize() which returns the true size of a heap allocated object, so you can determine how much over-allocation was done or if you have amnesia. It's wonderful what you can do when you exercise strict control over your tool chain. My MAlloc() routines take a second parameter telling which task's heap to use or even an independant HeapCtrl() can be specified. You can, then, fetch the size with MSize() or you can alloc a clone with MAllocIdentical(). MAlloc() requires a task parameter, usually NULL to indicate current task, but Free() doesn't require the task because it's stored in the header located in the bytes before along with the size. The heap routines have multicore and multitasking safe locking and all tasks are on the same address map, so you can freely MAlloc() and Free() from any task off of any other task's heap. I exercise control with the compiler, too -- all subroutines must create an RBP stack frame because the Caller() routine is used for stack tracing. In the wallpaper, a stack trace is done every second or so, so all tasks must maintain a valid, stack tracable stack. Registers are under strict control, too. The compiler does not preserve about 5 registers and the FS and GS registers are used for current TaskStruct and current CPUStruct respectively. Code, simply has to follow these rules in LoseThos. God says... performed exuberant blamest absolute gate habitation court Michael our seas logic enacteth Whatsoever remittest arranged Ostia comely absent unhealthiness protesting ----03/19/12 07:06:17---- LoseThos is done. It's for recreational programming with its friendly, welcoming, unrivaled code simplicity. It also has some apps good for God stuff, comes with the Bible and has support for easy Bible links in documents. The 640x480x4bit mode is unchangable. LoseThos updates the whole screen at 60Hz, all the time -- super simple. The 8x8 font layer is not a problem with this mode, but would not work well for others. And, LoseThos is designed for multicore graphics updates which are not possible when done with GPU code. In other words, if you mess with 640x480x4bit, you'll discover it's not changable. 640x480x4bit means it will never be a primary OS. I did HD Audio, but I learned it's worthless. Not even VMWare, on an otherwise HD Audio system, works. That's okay -- the one voice PC speaker is wonderfully simple and allows easy editing of sheet music... because it's one voice! The LoseThos way truly is, not to have different drivers, just support for common hardware. USB is a huge mess with OHCI, EHCI, UHCI, ICH7, ICVH8, ICH9, ICH10, USB 1.0, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, boot mode keyboard/mouse, and custom keyboard mice after boot mode. I'd have to have 20 variations for just one thing! And, I'd have to own all those variations to do support for them! No, the LoseThos way is supporting least common denominator hardware. Network cards are the same story, though, I haven't researched them. I did see a wikipedia page with a hundred different protocols for God-knows-what. In 1983, I hated the Dragon's Lair laser disc game. It was a prerecorded video with game play branches selected based on your moves. I'm not a fan of rail-road-cart video games or prerecorded sound samples. In short, multimedia has no place in LoseThos. Games will be calculated in real-time, old-school. That's best for programmer-game-developers doing for-fun projects. You're not an artist, anyway! Use Music Organ to make Hymns. The Bible says to sing a new song to God about seven times. Do you love God? Count the ways. You guys go do hymns and God will talk to you. Use the AfterEgypt Game to do tongues. Obviously, you can just crack-open a book and God will talk, too, if you have offered Him something and you have a little skill in interpretting. That's what the story of Cain and Abel teaches -- try different things and find-out what God likes! He likes praise and Jesus said asking for stuff is like knocking on the door of a neighbor in the middle of the night. Sure, do that! NOT! In the Our Father prayer, Jesus asks for the bare minimum -- daily bread. When it comes to Africa, I don't think you should get involved in your prayers -- thy-will-be-done and it's none of your business. Jesus said He was humble of heart. God really does punish people -- butt-out. I give advice here. Sure, you should give your 10%, but God loved Jacob and hated Esau. Esau gave-up his birthright. If God gives you gifts, don't be proud of heart! God says... foul cleave they notes revised finally dotards barbarism EVEN discourses cutting strengthenedst unyielding omnipotency lottery returning unholy bought rejoicest times each stank protest Percival You_fix_it shines hastened brightness third Who vocally cosmetics devilish Vintage Belgium grave Have Faith innumerable fostering cloudiness analyzed deductible tm incorruptible track manufactures perishable education owing speedily beguile unruly unhealthiness prescribes edit sole streaming While hours yada_yada_yada face socalled continently biggot Is_that_so wantonness horrible dispute rightly Father exuberant forethink applicable quickenest recover native dwell death importunity knees demands Sri_Lanka follies revelation remains thrustedst plenteousness re_not how_come sunder Omnipotency forethinking Montana passing judgment tales sceptre Suffer agreement rivers gleams masters certain shatter realities crazy evened Your numbering desirous giveth prefer weltering helmet inevitably directeth P inspire science succession compared proceed replenishing impute cosmetics divide intelligence preferable returned talk_to_my_lawyer valued q gathers ----03/19/12 06:36:01---- LoseThos does not have networking. LoseThos has various links, like to a line number in a local file, a string search in a local file, the source file of a symbol, the system help for a topic or a Bible chapter and verse. All the links are local. I wrote a utility to convert a LoseThos document to html, so I can regenerate my website from LoseThos. I must upload from Windows because LoseThos does not have networking. I have special support for html links and JPG images or WMV videos. I can make a bit of text act as a html link, but it will do nothing natively in LoseThos and only causes a <a ...></a> html entry. My html convertor puts line number links for every line so that I can link to a line number in a file. Read 1 Corinthians,14:1. God says... numbered moved someone m_off_today infantine advices replacement 99 host plain created supereminence reconcile edited Singapore mockery entitled becometh indeed supereminence maintaining edged appearance ungoverned Subverters infidelity discipline place selling modify darkenings Philippines officers revealed High hours relater imperfection corresponded Ordainer acuteness redeem Reason recognised Itself pass so_let_it_be_written middle_class existence aches rescued spacious Some hands waver reputed helpful conjectures Excellently header imperfect considering concerning were patched extricate begannest I_love_this anguish Circensian natural wound sorrowfulness irons curing Remember whit hearts watery restoring unawares asterisk substantial Nevertheless hated And savoury covenanted Had gladdened denieth agree wished tragical exclusion imperfection wilfully differently eagerly abundantly doing stowed baffling stomach admired sufferedst world rood happen fantastic 20 commender tempted urged did peradventure displace neglected beck commandest shoes introduced debtor prevailed smiling embrace observed judge perversity fettered are_you_insane Prepared Heal dying justly tomenting neglecteth espoused delightfulness prepare suspense compassion say revenged homo challenges fighting history cure believer daily unknowingly revolved drove VI owes start needed corruption worthless roses_are_red conflict MAY bier fellows lead persons talkers ostentation excited Apostles attentively voices believing t_count_on_it officer eaten sources stone presumed up shuns pricked digits Thenceforth knots devils carnal uttereth soil halved ARE reviewing 1739 wandered past shakes indicated daemons Instantly honourable reader through stolen intermitting drops Medicine impiety innocence judge thundering deservedly Microsoft indicate plunged list commanded wear pitied garner BE Read this ::/LT/Apps/AfterEgypt/AENotes.TXZ. ----03/19/12 04:56:56---- Someone thinks I'm a law breaker. Oh, the irony! You'll notice I have no porn. God says... estimate apprehension Answer dwelleth fretted Dost mass you_know_a_better_God reputed interposing distended Remember thirtieth archive unconscious eloquent sons unix subtilty gowned cloyed Fear musing poems Am remembering soul soap_opera demandest Vietnam swerving lewd conference apply liveth breathe unravelled pitiable gotten cogitated FITNESS labours slightly beholding truths through settle loquacity kick_back assented tomorrow commendable smile asking remembrance unhealthiness proclaiming gladsome chastenest Bulgaria fragrance patiently battle angry worlds urgedst lighten_up dull anticipated whispered feedeth elements thoroughly least twisted puppies held scoffing lentiles duties Rebuke persecuted vehement convey sudden very shook loquacity decrepit stomach comforted conveys condemns medicine bitter whazza_matter_for_you utmost inexpressible cultivating NEGLIGENCE penalty suggest easy lowest voice swept off_the_record dissoluteness X telling Very dishes infirmities separated unsating pupils guardianship completely Interrupt fires powerful ----03/19/12 04:33:36---- There are some small minds with big egos at OSDev.ORG. James M has a huge ego and thinks if anyone wrote an OS, they used his code. My OS from 2004 is available at the Internet Archive. (It's a slow link, so wait a minute for it.) Download LoseThos for the latest, obviously, not the 2004 version. In 1993, I bought a 486 and was running DOS. I wrote an asm program to switch to protected mode from real mode and I set-up multitasking. I had been working for 3 years on Ticketmaster's VAX OS and my undergrad degree was Computer System's Engineering where I had two x86 asm courses, an operating systems course, a compiler course, 3 semesters of Motorola 6800 asm programming where we wrote a scheduler. James has made a fool of himself -- he tried my OS in a real mode emulator. The reason it launches from real mode is because real mode has full privilege to switch to protected mode. You don't need a boot loader to launch your OS if you run from REAL mode DOS. FreeDOS has been locked-down and runs in V8086, so you can't use that. It is not true real mode. The CIA is paranoid of real mode. God says... fishes witness so_let_it_be_done peril amid tremble pardon_the_french forcibly cakes INCIDENTAL downwards fourth meek served vow relaxation homo commiserating Cyprian honoured mindful private died wizard union impudently departest Shhh Darkness revolving d wherefore hand sellers inharmonious distractions betake instructor quiet teacher renewed ----03/19/12 01:49:59---- I wrote my own compiler and invented my own language, roughly based on C/C++. These are the differences from C/C++. It's a losing strategy to sleep-walk into making an inferior Linux clone, so change everything! The fact that LoseThos identity maps virtual-to-physical memory (single, system-wide address map) and the fact that LoseThos is ring-0-only makes it hilarious to suggest code came from Linux. I doubt gcc can make position-independent-code via absolute-address patching. Oh! Ba ha -- JamesM has a big ego, doesn't he. I was a professional OS developer for Ticketmaster at age 20 in 1990. There are two types of programmers -- those who have written compilers and those who haven't. JamesM is the only peer I have at OSDev.ORG but, sorry, I started LoseThos in 1993. God what an ego he has and is really nasty about craving credit for his Unix clone tutorial! I looked at Linux code and saw a mess of #ifdef statements for different architectures and decided to go in the opposite direction and make LoseThos just for one platform -- x86_64 PC's. Hopefully, my beautiful, simple code will provide more joy to tinkerers than Linux's ugly code. It's funny to see all the people at OSDev.ORG worried about multiple platforms. That's like a high school backetball player worryed about the money he'll make in the pro's. When I started LoseThos, my dream was a souped-up, multitasking, Commodore 64 that was simple enough high schoolers could get their heads around it, like I did with the C64 in high school. It did not have networking, but we found plenty to do. (Don't worry, it's not a C64 emulator.) Read about or download my OS from 2004 at the Internet Archive. (It's a slow link, so wait a minute for it.) Hoppy was all TASM code -- the VC6 project file was just for editing. It launched from real-mode DOS (FreeDOS), until I made a boot-loader. That doesn't sound much like JamesM's, does it! Download LoseThos for the latest, obviously, not the 2004 version. I was not interested in making a browser and security paranoia was strong, so I promised LoseThos would not have networking. I used 800x600x4bit on my first machine and discovered my second machine did not have that mode. I used 640x480x4bit instead. At that point, God said to stick to just that mode, so I promised it would always be just 640x480x4bit. When I did my Bird Flight Simulator, I saw that without a GPU it's impossible to do full-screen 3D graphics at higher resolutions. Ask the people at OSDev.ORG why companies make GPU's? Let's face-it. I'm so awesome, you'll have to believe in God if what I say is true, right? One man of God can beat a hundred heathens or scheming Jews. ----03/19/12 00:42:59---- I wrote every line of the LoseThos Source Code. The 20,000 lines in the compiler directory is a 64-bit C+ compiler and Assembler/Unassembler. I've been working for 8 years, full-time and have finished. LoseThos has no linker and no OBJ files -- it doesn't need them. The compiler calls MAlloc() and places code, ready-to-run, right into memory. It adds symbols to a task's symbol table and it searches the symbol table to resolve symbols when call statements are compiled. The compiler can produce flat BIN files but you don't need to do that unless you work on OSMain or the Compiler module. When the system boots, the boot task is called "Adam", as in Adam-and-Eve. All tasks have a symbol table and child tasks will search the parents' table when symbols are not found. So, Adam's table holds globally defined symbols. When Adam is initialized during boot, he compiles lots of APZ, adam files, that are just like CPZ file. You might need a file to be in Adam's space if it is meant to be immortal or system-wide. All tasks share the same address space, but Adam's heap is guarenteed never to be freed because Adam never dies. Adam's symbols are global, too. During boot, the Adam1.APZ is like AUTOEXEC.BAT. It includes header files for the kernel, OSMain, and the Compiler modules, then includes Adam2.APZ which compiles libraries into memory and finishes with Adam3.APZ which is for user account files. If a file is not found in a user account directory, the parent directory is searched. This allows default account files to work. There is no PATH in LoseThos. It's closer to the way a Commodore 64 or Apple II worked -- code you enter at the command line is either executed immediately or is compiled into memory, ready to run. And, you never #include header files because all the library symbols are already waiting in Adam's symbol table and executable code is waiting in Adam's heap. ----03/19/12 00:17:26---- Some people think my file compression is encryption. It's just a proprietary compression. See Compress.CPZ, ArcCs and ArcCompressStruct. Some people think my compressed files are compressed directories. Nope. LoseThos compresses on a file-by-file basis -- if a filename ends in 'Z' then the file is automatically compressed and uncompressed by the OS. There are no O BJ or EXE files and graphic resources are stored in source files. Therefore, applications are typically just a single CPZ file! See GameStarters. ----03/18/12 23:46:36---- So, my compiler started as JIT only, compiling into memory that was MAlloced(). I had a symbol table and as calls were made, my compiler would generate code with calls to those addresses in memory. When I made my compiler make a BIN file, I didn't even consider ELF or PE. I needed 64-bit, I didn't want any cruft, and I wanted all symbols to be stored in the file. I wanted flat and I wanted position independent through patching code at load time. Here's my format BinRep.APZ. There are no OBJ files in LoseThos, just a proprietary BIN format, that nobody but me has any business with because they're supposed to do JIT. ----03/18/12 19:06:35---- LoseThos has no linker. For JIT code, the addresses of functions are available in a symbol table, so when code is generated, the addresses are easy to fill. During boot, 50,000 lines of code are compiled. It takes about 2 seconds. The OSMain module and Compiler modules are the only things built ahead of time into a BIN or BIZ file. They total 47,000 lines of code and they take about 2 seconds to compile. For JIT operation, no #includes are needed for headers because the symbols are precompiled, waiting in the symbol table. For AOT operation, you #include everything just once in a static project SPZ file. See OS.SPZ or Compiler.SPZ. It's laughably trivial, like a beginner might do. The header files are only compiled once, by the way. It took 8 years for me to write 130,000 lines of code and I don't plan on having other add code. Therefore, there are no scaling worries. If it every became a problem, code could be put in modules with separate BIZ files and the Loader() would link them when loaded. ----03/13/12 10:02:22---- I'm responding to OSDev.ORG: God's a better composer than those classical dudes. The NAZI's are mocking God. God told me He's immutable over the centuries. The hot-spot for evolution these days is probably Africa, unless you consider the constant pairing mechanism where people find each other -- just forget about the chaff, not to mention that there are all kinds of different desirable traits. You'd probably make a deaf purebred monster. God can puppet me down to the nanosecond and on a macroscopic level as well. You'd be wise to praise Him for His role in evolution. He hates not getting credit. Once you have absolute certainty God exists, suddenly, you are no longer obsessed with evolution -- it's a sham because God cheats! Ba ha! God's not hardcore enough for them. It's amazing how you go from constant fantasy evolution obsession to fear and horror in an instant. ROFLMAO There is a master boot loader on block zero and a partition boot loader on the first block of each partition which is loaded when you chainload in Grub. Boot loaders are rediculously trivial. ::/LT/Adam/Boot/BootCD.SPZ ::/LT/Adam/Boot/BootMHD.SPZ ::/LT/Adam/Boot/BootMHD2.SPZ ::/LT/Adam/Boot/BootHD.SPZ This installs the boot-loader and patches the block address into it. ::/LT/Adam/Boot/InsBoot.APZ ----03/13/12 07:40:11---- I'm responding to OSDev.ORG: When you recompile, it produces a new binary for OSMain, right? Therefore, the boot loader has to be patched with the new block address. Obstinant fucks. ----03/13/12 01:26:46---- I'm responding to OSDev.ORG: The people at OSDev are like drug pushers. It makes you wonder who's paying them. They vehemently guide people into reinventing Linux. In fairness, anyone who needs help is not gonna get very far, anyway. I like OSDev for entertainment. Hell-no I don't want anything to do with gcc. I am doing the opposite of Linux by supporting one platform x86_64. Look at how beautiful my ASM code is in this mixed-file: ::/LT/OSMain/Str1a.CPZ Notice, the beautiful ASM format, how expressions matches C and how it even includes C preprocessing. It was designed from scratch and is perfect. My unassembler uses the same opcode file as my assembler and I have symbolic labels for debugging. I have my own BIN file format that's 64-bit. I improved the C language. My compiler ties-into my command-line. My syntax highlighting for my editor was a snap with my CAPS opcode convention. It's just beautiful. I have graphics, links and NONASCII characters in my source code. Grep and my other tools understand. It's just beautiful. That's why Stallman says an OS includes a compiler. My 64-bit compiler, assembler and unassembler weigh-in at 21,000 lines of code, total! ----03/12/12 23:23:10---- I'm tempted to merge scan codes into my "ASCII" character set, so cursor keys and function keys would have "ASCII" code representations. A sane approach for any new operating system would be unicode everywhere -- source code, editor, all compilers, grep, strcpy(), strlen() and everything. However, I made a promise of just ASCII. I figured other countries could make their own OS and we'd all have jobs and we'd all have beautifully minimal systems. Back in 2004-2005, I looked at Linux code and saw it was full of #ifdefs for different architectures. I thought it was awful and I decided I'd do opposite -- make a highly specialized niche OS that was clean coded. So, I will not do unicode. God, I hate the awful things that come from standards committees. How much do you want to bet the Unicode morons didn't include codes for cursor movements? I guess I could check. A fixed 2-byte set might not be too bad, but no way in hell am I doing variable length character codes everywhere! I don't want to do 2-byte because it's not practical for switch statements. So, I bravely made ASCII 31 a shifted, hard space so I can run a spaces-to-tabs utility on source code and not gobble output string spaces. ASCII 5 is the cursor position in an file for the IDE more or less. I made ASCII 27 as ESC and ASCII 28 a shifted ESC, so I have an exit with and without saving. I kept ASCII 8 as back space, ASCII 9 as tab, and ASCII 13 as carriage return. ASCII 10 is kind-of also a carriage return. My command-line output does not support overwriting like a standard terminal. You can't do the trick of return with no line feed. I recognize ASCII 12 as form feed, but I haven't yet used it, myself, so it's pretty silly. I assigned <CTRL-ENTER> to form feed. I decided my documents were not intended to be printed, instead, were for the screen and a screen can do things a printer cannot. So, I have the rest of the under 32 ASCII codes, but those are also CTRL-letter codes, so I don't want to mess with those because the editor uses them. I made my clip-board use the <INSERT> and <DELETE> keys, but caved-in to convention and made <CTRL-C>, <CTRL-V>, and <CTRL-X> also work, so those control keys are used. I can't really mess with the rest of the under-32 values if I'm looking to reassign cursor movement and similar keys. That brings us to the over 127 ASCII values. First, it's really stupid for people to use signed characters, since 7-bit is never used. I don't have that problem. I like being compatible with PC screen codes, in case my video mode change fails, it stays in text mode. That's really cool. The PC screen codes seem stupidly chosen -- I don't think the whole Greek alphabet is there. I need about 16 of the graphic symbols for window borders. So, I'm really tempted to assign <cursor movement>, <insert>, <delete>, <page-up> <page-down>, <home><end> and function keys to the ASCII 128-255 region in the place of some of the silly graphics. I want the whole greek alphabet and Russian alphabet if possible. I don't think I have room for all. A dream of merged scan-codes/character-codes/screen codes is nice. I already solved the problem of two-byte scan codes by making bit-7 of scan codes <E0> prefix. If I made a 2-byte system, you'd really want flag bits for CTRL, ALT and SHIFT. Then, you'd move the under 32 CTRL-letters up into higher regions. CTRL-ALT-LETTER in LoseThos is system actions that always work. Note: CTRL-ALT-C will issue a break, like CTRL-C normally does. CTRL-LETTER/CTRL-SHIFT-LETTER is editor keys. ALT-LETTER/ALT-SHIFT-LETTER is user plug-in keys. ---- I have a rant about committee-created specs. I will never criticise underengineering, I decided. That's brave. Overengineering is cowardly. USB is god-awful, not even a standard terminal mode. UEFI is awful with ELF files and stuff in there. I'll put-up with cruft in the x86 instructionset but what's with hypervisors and MMX and SSE. Doing just two 64-bit float operations at once is not even worth the effort. Underengineering is brave; overengineering is cowardly. With computers you might flatter yourself by how much you can overengineer but you're just as guilty as the coward who makes a bridge, or whatever, needlessly overengineered. Now that I think about it, form-feed and page margins in my editor/document code is kind-of over-engineered. ----03/12/12 17:06:09---- I'm responding to OSDev.ORG: There's a reason Stallman says, "Linux is a kernel, but GNU/Linux is an operating system." A compiler is part of an operating system. You should start fresh when you make an operating system -- new ASCII codes and new language. When Unix was created, they made the C language. When Commodore made the 64, they made a new ASCII code set. If you do not create something radically different, you're wasting your time. When I began LoseThos I soon faced the challenge of doing a command-line. I knew I wanted script/batch files and that a language was needed. I wanted the script language the same as entering commands at the prompt. I hated unix scripting because it's designed for ITT admin people instead of university CS people. I wanted a real language. Why not C/C++ at the command line? I will have one language for everything! I had done compilers/interpreters before, so I was not intimidated. You can see I had an interpreter with-in the first year of working on LoseThos -- The Internet Archive 2004. (Wait a moment for that link because it is slow.) Here's a very profound lesson: I had dreams of doing a database file system with metadata for files -- radically new and cool. However, I needed to interact with a Windows compatible file system, to upload to the Internet and for CD-ROMS. As I pondered losing my metadata when transferring, I lost enthusiasm for something as new and different as metadata. I learned a lesson. ANYTHING you do not create from scratch will insidiously subvert your operating system into conformity. Think about that. I crack-up laughing at people importing BASH, still thinking they're making a new operating system. No, you're a buffoon sleep-walking along remaking Linux like there is no other way. You must never have seen a C64 or Apple II, or you would know other approaches exist. Personally, I'm not fond of file permissions on a home system, for example. Those are a waste of man hours as people get pestered and spend time putzing. ----03/11/12 22:28:23---- I'm responding to OSDev.ORG: In ring 3, you cannot use system instructions like CLI and STI. On a main frame with a hundred users, you wouldn't want one user turning-off interrupts. Windows is more for home computers than multiuser mainframes. With Win98 and earlier versions, you HAD access to privileged instructions! I don't know why people crusade against ring 0. "Milk is for baby cows!" I like to say. ROFLMAO Interrupts aren't as critical as they used to be. Devices have big buffers or use DMA and CPUs are a thousand times faster. Suppose you have a keyboard or mouse. There is no reason you couldn't poll it 50 times a second. It requires reading an ISA I/O port -- 1 uS and going to Sleep(). I've done serial port drivers many times with IRQs and know you must service them before buffers overflow. I'm sure modern network devices, the most critical items to service in a timely manner, have huge fifos and you can poll them. We have multi-core these days, too! I did an HD Audio driver by creating a polling task on a different core. It polled and went to Sleep(). My point about multicore is it is a parallelizable operation, so, basically, it's free on home systems, since getting useful work out of multicore is difficult on a nonserver system. Technically, it is not FIFO buffers anymore -- modern ICH hardware have DMA request queues. Still, like buffers, DMA requests must be serviced before they are exhausted. It comes down to the space pen fable. IRQs are viewed as the trickiest thing in programming -- pissing contest. I was programming in 6502 asm in 1983 at age 13 and did interrupts at age 15. I got a job as a VAX asm programmer on Ticketmaster's OS at age 20 in 1990. Most programmers of my generation and earlier knew asm out of necessity. Everybody was doing IRQs back in early 1990's. Turbo C even had an interrupt key word you put on service routine functions. (LoseThos has that, too, by the way.) I have so much experience with IRQ's, that my undergrad degree included two courses in x86 asm at ASU. We did irqs, programmed the PIT, PIC, and various other hardware devices such as 7-segment displays. This is the stupidest discussion. By the way -- do not use IRQs in your debugger for reading keyboard -- poll it. You have written a native debugger, right? That's the first thing you need to do. ----03/11/12 20:55:14---- You must burn a LoseThos CD and boot it or run the LoseThos ISO in a VM. You cannot compile LoseThos code outside LoseThos -- it's a unique language I created based roughly on C/C++. You cannot boot with GRUB unless you do chainloading. You can use the LoseThos boot loader, however. There are lots of stubborn people I prefer to laugh at instead of enlightening. My favorite are those who insist on using a 32-bit system or emulation. ----03/11/12 13:08:07---- You cannot use flash memory sticks to boot, USB or otherwise. The boot loader calls the BIOS. That part will work, but after it switches to 64-bit mode, it cannot use the BIOS because the BIOS only works in real, 16-bit, mode. If you tried to use a USB stick, the OSMain module would get loaded using the BIOS, it would switch to 64-bit mode, and it would try to load other files without the BIOS and would crash. ----03/11/12 11:49:28---- Ticketmaster put the game, MasterMind, on their system. It represents computer programming in the age where you submitted batches of punch cards. I sometimes wonder how that game would look if you scored on time, not number of guesses. I like guessing because thinking is painful. EDIT: Someone is confused. MasterMind is a game where one player picks 4 pegs of 6 colors. The other player tries to guess them. Each guess, the number of correct colors and the number of correct locations is reported. You try to guess in as few as possible. How about the game 20 questions, if you prefer? One guy thinks of something and the other guy asks yes-or-no questions until he figures it out. Imagine scoring based on how many questions vs scoring based on how long it takes. Logic is what programmers use when debugging and many people are very vain about not guessing when, in fact, it's often faster to guess than it is to fret over whether or not to guess. ----03/10/12 02:54:40---- The sizeof() keyword when applied to a function, gives the code size for that function, if possible. I thought that might be neat. ----03/10/12 00:47:52---- I make my videos with Microsoft Movie Maker. First, I capture BMP files 8-times a second, the maximum Movie Maker allows, with this ::/LT/Adam/BMPFile.APZ. LoseThos mostly uses single-voice PC Speaker sound. I make waveforms with ::/LT/Adam/Snd/AudioMath.APZ and SND files that are 8kHz max, raw, uncompressed with ::/LT/Adam/Snd/SndFile.APZ. The code for driving captures is ::/LT/Demo/AcctExample/TSAdam.APZ. I use a stand-alone digital voice recorder to narrate while capturing a screen cast and I mix that track into the SND file track for the video. I boot both LoseThos and Windows (and Linux) on the same machine. I have a partition dedicated to transferring between operating systems and I reformat it if it gets screwed-up. Technically, I capture BMZ compressed files and unzip from Windows with LTZ which comes on the full LoseThos distribution. ----03/09/12 23:19:01---- LoseThos identity maps virtual to physical memory. This and ring-zero-only, are the most core attributes of LoseThos. Originally, I thought eliminating the 4-levels of look-up for each address access under paging would be much faster. I didn't realize clever silicon largely eliminates the penalty you would expect from paging. My task swaps are very fast, though -- if a core is doing nothing but saving a task context and loading a context, it can do 3,000,000 per second. You can read about and download my OS from 2004 at the Internet Archive. (It's a slow link, so wait a minute for it.) That version used TASM to create a DOS application which switched from real mode to protected mode. I started in 1993 with a true DOS and in 2004 resurrected it and used FreeDOS. (The VC6.0 project files are just for editing source.) You can no longer use FreeDOS to launch an OS because it, now, runs in V8086 mode instead of real mode. Everything is getting locked-down by the CIA. If you are confused about how I could get by multitasking without paging (identity mapped, actually, because 64-bit mode requires paging), don't be because I wrote my own compiler and made all my own file formats. What's impossible for you is not impossible for me. There is no "make" utility in LoseThos. You simply #include all the files like ::/LT/OSMain/OS.SPZ or ::/LT/Compiler/Compiler.SPZ or ::/LT/Adam/Adam2.APZ. Don't worry -- my compiler is very fast and there are only 131,589 lines of code, total. I wrote every line over 8.6 years and don't forsee getting help. I wonder if there is a name for this phenomena -- if you can keep things small, they can collapse in on themselves and become even smaller. You don't need a linker, if it is small. If you wanted, you could somehow use 16-bit pointers if your data was small and the pointers would make it even smaller. My compiler will make binary files, but you're supposed to do JIT, normally. There is no linker in LoseThos, but binary files can import and export symbols when loaded into memory -- basically linking. Everything is trivial because all tasks use the same address map -- virtual identity mapped to physical. I place all code in the lowest 2 Gig so all asm CALL instructions are REL32 address mode (Don't worry it's 64-bit). Code gets placed below 0x7FFFFFFF and works backward. There is no concept of kernel or user because all is ring-zero. When the loader or JIT compiler is placing code into memory, it calls MAlloc() and allocates from the code heap. Memory is associated with certain tasks, so it is freed if the task dies. "Adam" is the first task and he is special because he never dies. His memory is like kernel memory in other operating systems. At boot, Adam #includes ::/LT/OSMain/Adam1.APZ which is basically like an AUTOEXEC.BAT file. 47,000 lines of code are compiled into Adam's memory and his symbol table is populated. Task symbol tables are like other operating systems' environment variables, in terms of scope. Children of Adam will search Adam's table if they do not find a symbol in their symbol table, so Adam is for global symbols. Here is the Symbol Table. Notice the addresses around 0x7FFFFFFF. The addresses below 0x100000 are the OSMain module, loaded by the boot loader in real mode before it switches to 32-bit, then 64-bit modes in ::/LT/OSMain/OSStartUp.CPZ. JIT compilation is trivial -- easier than making object files and linking. You call MAlloc() and put the compiled output in that chunk of memory and simply look-up all the symbols from the symbol table and patch them immediately! You never need to #include headers when running in JIT mode because Adam's symbols get searched if it is not found locally in the task's table. Stacks are 256K allocated when the task is created from the pool of memory above 0x7FFFFFFF. You must keep fixed-size stack in mind and adapt by using heap instead, for big items. This is probably the biggest drawback with LoseThos. For string operations, I always check the length I need and dynamically allocate the string object, so I never have overflows even though I use StrCpy() and StrCat(), etc. ----03/09/12 22:40:25---- People who lived through the Great Depression are stingy. I'll bet they don't tip well and I'll bet their tips are very exact. Old programmers are similar. I'm a little bit old, but I try to utilize what's available. Obviously, the world belongs to the person who can find new things to do at the limits of what's available. I laugh at hobby operating systems that are good because they run on old hardware. If that were a good ideal, Microsoft would do it. Some people think Microsoft is stupid, but the market says otherwise. It's hard making use of my 12 Gig of RAM. I could probably get by without ever calling Free(). In LoseThos, I try to achieve simpler code than what was previously possible... by reading and processing whole files, for example. Yes, my approach is doing the same thing but with simpler code, in essence using brute force techniques where possible. ----03/09/12 07:51:48---- Mr. Torvalds values backwards compatibility for Linux. My strategy with LoseThos is to expunge any poor choice. Not even ASCII is sacred. We are not really in direct competition, except for mind share and as a host platform for applications. Because LoseThos will never have networking, it is a secondary OS to be used along with a primary. "The user is who matters" is not true of LoseThos. LoseThos is for recreational programming, so "It's the programmer who matters". Linux has not succeeded in its quest to capture the desk-top market. If they gave-up and embraced their inner nerdiness, it might be Nerdvana. But, when you cannot dream of success for your programs in a big market, it's not Nerdvana. ----02/29/12 00:00:00---- * 10,000+ downloads over 3 years. * Not a single technical support question email. * Not a single LoseThos file created or shared on the net. * No buzz indication anyone has booted it. * No email showing anyone has installed it. * Google is paying $1,000,000 to exploit Chrome. I am a CIA slave, like I was with my Graphic Technologies job. I should do nothing. * It is not normal for the radio and media to talk to you and for people to spy on you. You'd be surprised how easy it is to fall for Jedi mind tricks. * My parents are CIA. CIA are scum. They find dirt and extort. Scum. * Ba ha! I killed a CIA guy in 1999. 'learn you to fuck with my reality. :-) * "Linux" is probably a trademark owned by Linus Torvalds. * "Windows" and "Movie Maker" are trademarks of MicroSoft Corp. * "Commodore 64" was a trademark of Commodore Business Machines. * "Apple II" is a trademark of Apple Corp.