THE VIDEO SHELF · kOS minimal operating system
Geo Carncross: How to program computers (kos)
A 2014 talk by Geo Carncross (geocar) demonstrating kOS, a minimalist operating system and programming environment built around the k language, with early screenshots.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it as a rare live look at kOS in action, and one that is fascinating and mind-bending.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Justin Cormack
- Topic
- kOS minimal operating system
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Not very easy to come by, but if you haven't seen it yet, here's a presentation by geocar from 2014: [VIDEO]
beagle3 on Hacker News · 2017-07
In Red Programming Language 0.6.3For those who want to see it in action, there's actually a talk about kOS on YouTube: [VIDEO] . The talk is by the fourth member, Geo, who also frequents HN (geocar).
undecidabot on Hacker News · 2019-06
In Impending kOS (2014)
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.