Plan for Chris "DiGi" Timberlake
by Chris "DiGi" Timberlake · 10/22/2004 (6:48 pm) · 21 comments
Ok, i know i promised you guys that i would bring some screen-shots of DES. Truth is i've been really busy. Relationship probs, break ups, getting inshape for the military and fufilling 3 full-time jobs for my game, is well hard. Anyways, the reason i'm writing this is a few days ago, i had an idea.
Torque OS
It came to me when i was looking for a Media Center OS, or Media Center Edition of Linux. Then, i remembered that someone on IRC had taken a Linux kernal and Torque, and made Torque the GUI for the kernal. Which got me thinking. If someone can do that with Torque, what can torque not do? Then i also remembered about something the GO-L Computer Corperation used. They used a PCI Chip which turned 4 gigs of ram into a hard-drive. The results where incredible! XP loaded within seconds. Of corse it should, considering it can write data at around what? Take a guess. C'mon you can do it. Around 110 MBPS Under Idle, and 130 MBPS Under Load (no thats not a typo). Most hard-drives do 40 - 60MBPS. So, i gotta ask? All of these combind, what does it lead up to?
It leads up to Torque OS. If built correctly, it could very well be Mac OSX's and XP's killer. Sure itd be tons of work, but i've learned that the pride of your work is alot better then money. I mean really. Think of it, Torque could provide a fully interactive 3D Os, like nothing before. A tool panel (similer too mac's) on the bottom. A list of processes and workspace ontop (Similer to XFCE), and a background thats completely 3d. Ontop of all that, you could design a filesystem like nothing before. Programs would be easier to code them ever before, and youd have more freedom then ever before. Using TorqueScript, these programs could have tons of power, and simlicity. Then ontop of that, you could use Torque to plug into the Kernal, and allow Linux Apps to be used, aswell as other things linux. (Drivers, all that fun stuff). Ontop of all this. Theres a 99.9% probability that using Linux and Torque together, it could go on anything. Xbox2, PS3, heck, hack the phantom box to do it. The sky is the limit. And ontop of that, it would all be 3d. Nothing like before (Sure Sun has a 3D OS, but this could be so much better!) So, really, whatcha guys think about this? I mean sure the idea needs work and polishing, but i think its a winner. I know people have told me to make a .diff editor within Torque, and i have to admit. I was wrong. Torque would be a perfect .dif editor if done right.
So, heres my question to you. What if all the guys who are working with editors within torque. (the scripting source within torque, the person behind the .diff viewer and .map compiler within torque.) What if they all got together and made Torque OS reality? I just thought i'd throw that out within the air. So anyways, think on that for a while guys.
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Torque OS
It came to me when i was looking for a Media Center OS, or Media Center Edition of Linux. Then, i remembered that someone on IRC had taken a Linux kernal and Torque, and made Torque the GUI for the kernal. Which got me thinking. If someone can do that with Torque, what can torque not do? Then i also remembered about something the GO-L Computer Corperation used. They used a PCI Chip which turned 4 gigs of ram into a hard-drive. The results where incredible! XP loaded within seconds. Of corse it should, considering it can write data at around what? Take a guess. C'mon you can do it. Around 110 MBPS Under Idle, and 130 MBPS Under Load (no thats not a typo). Most hard-drives do 40 - 60MBPS. So, i gotta ask? All of these combind, what does it lead up to?
It leads up to Torque OS. If built correctly, it could very well be Mac OSX's and XP's killer. Sure itd be tons of work, but i've learned that the pride of your work is alot better then money. I mean really. Think of it, Torque could provide a fully interactive 3D Os, like nothing before. A tool panel (similer too mac's) on the bottom. A list of processes and workspace ontop (Similer to XFCE), and a background thats completely 3d. Ontop of all that, you could design a filesystem like nothing before. Programs would be easier to code them ever before, and youd have more freedom then ever before. Using TorqueScript, these programs could have tons of power, and simlicity. Then ontop of that, you could use Torque to plug into the Kernal, and allow Linux Apps to be used, aswell as other things linux. (Drivers, all that fun stuff). Ontop of all this. Theres a 99.9% probability that using Linux and Torque together, it could go on anything. Xbox2, PS3, heck, hack the phantom box to do it. The sky is the limit. And ontop of that, it would all be 3d. Nothing like before (Sure Sun has a 3D OS, but this could be so much better!) So, really, whatcha guys think about this? I mean sure the idea needs work and polishing, but i think its a winner. I know people have told me to make a .diff editor within Torque, and i have to admit. I was wrong. Torque would be a perfect .dif editor if done right.
So, heres my question to you. What if all the guys who are working with editors within torque. (the scripting source within torque, the person behind the .diff viewer and .map compiler within torque.) What if they all got together and made Torque OS reality? I just thought i'd throw that out within the air. So anyways, think on that for a while guys.
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About the author
Associate Paul Dana
It's been tried before (3D desktop for an operating system) more than once in fact.
In fact I know a GG Associate that worked at a company that had a 3D desktop product that failed.
It was not successful for many reasons.
I suggest you do some research into prevoius attempts at a 3D OS.