Please note, this is a serious article about mental illness and the attitudes surrounding it in the hacker community.

Thinking different.

LoseThos is a 64-bit supplemental (like insurance) operating system for a niche--programming as entertainment. It is not a Windows wannabe. The envisioned usage model is like that of a classic Apple II or Commodore 64. It has no security and allows full access to memory, I/O ports and all Assembly instructions from your programs. Now, the average programmer has rights normally restricted to system programmers. What's more entertaining than tinkering with kernal ideas or playing around with multicore?1

Terry A. Davis'2 LoseThos is an esoteric operating system that sports

Some interesting UI that looks to be a mashup between DESQview and Oberon.

A variation of C called "C+" which is also interpreted by the shell.

A unified editor and shell with images and text

A modifiable macro system for menus

Some sophisticated auto-complete system

Built-in transparent file compression

An oddly navigable debugger

A refreshingly straight forward and navigable website.

And did I mention that it's 100% his code?

Here is a narrated video and demo