Comment by jggonz
1 month ago
"Author" of os8088 here. You're right, it's hand-prompted.
Claude's Opus and Fable have done a really great job helping me and another contributor shape this operating system. It's been a really interesting way to learn about the different techniques that other operating systems have used to get the performance we saw in LisaOS, MacOS, Windows, GEOS, etc... performance at 640x480 on an XT class machine is tricky! Also, the 64KB segment limitations were very interesting to overcome!
One thing is where you learn through llm and then apply this knowledge, write asm the way humans do, another is letting Claude generate everything.
Did you ask Claude to write this comment too?
lol, so disappointing to see the attacks when I'm just having some fun.
It would probably had been fine had you just not put the "hand written" part.
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Stop calling it "Mac-like" and the project will live longer
No, please keep on track. "Mac-like" is a perfect fit for the "Daddy, what's (a) computer/programming?" vibe crowd.
Even The Company itself thinks so, as evidenced by relevant advertisements of the not too distant past. :)