And LLMs are still confidently bullshitting:

> Everything after that is the interface you remember from a 1984 Macintosh: […] and a dock along the bottom with one tile per running program.

In that case I look forward to seeing OS X’s Aqua ported to the IBM PS/2.

From the landing page:

> 66,183 lines of hand-written real-mode assembly

Goes to the github - contributers jggonz and CLAUDE. The README.md doubles down on this at the bottom with the license.

> Everything here is hand-written; no third-party code is vendored into the OS, so the whole tree is covered by that one license.

That's what happens when you let an LLM write your ad-copy...

I'm surprised Claude is actually decent at real-mode Asm, but maybe there was a lot of attempts and guidance by the human.

There are both pro- and anti-AI factions here... and those with more nuanced views.

Personally, I don't care as long as the end result is good, but a lot of AI software tends to be in the lower end of the quality range.

Different groups, the spammers like to congratulate each other for how much hard work they must have put into their very impressive prompt engineering. Regardless, AI code is distinct from extremely blatant AI design. People dismiss things that had no actual design, just whatever fell out of the prompt they gave it. If you can't write a single human paragraph or put thought and care into how you are presenting 'your' project, it's not worth paying attention to. Why can't they present their own work honestly? Why would I spend energy looking at an OS made by someone who can't write an HTML file by themself?

It’s almost like those are two different populations of people?

Well there was GeoWorks (which AOL used the GUI of to their advantage):

https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos

Just discovered the videos (https://www.youtube.com/@NostalgiaPCTV) ...and the source code on github reads like a book.

Amazing.

I might have to try it out. I have an 8088 IBM PC (my first computer) on a desk. I need to swap out some bad RAM (I've been getting Parity errors and other strange behavior), but it says it works with 256KB so I could remove the AST SixPakPlus altogether. The fully populated mother board has 256KB. (I could also unplug the MFM hard drive controller as well.) It supports CGA and VGA and I have both (the CGA is original; the VGA is an 8-bit ISA one I picked up a couple years ago). I also have a serial mouse... Right now I have one floppy disk that came with a book I re-bought recently (Peter Norton's Guide to Assembly Language) and I could back up the files from it and use that but I think I'd rather buy/find another one to use. And I need more than one disk for this anyway.

Interesting, it currently says, 'Nobody has yet written the images to 5.25" media and booted an actual XT with them.'

You mean like the Amiga or Atari ?