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his was a unique existence

i think the reason for my confusion is i probably just skipped over it when it was sparrow (I was probably searching about how 64-bit OSes that weren't Unix or Windows were getting along), then again after it was renamed and spammed on a news site somewhere. so, that's easy to chalk up to deja vu. an OS written solo to that much completion with such a religious focus is so out of the realm of likelihood that perhaps the brain must either reject having seen it and disbelieve that it even runs, or never forget it was a thing.

being religious myself, i had to be a bit leery of the assertions that RNG word salad is a message from God, but even then I also kind of detected that something was off and inspiration was about all he had left going for him. didn't make it any less shocking to hear what he got up to as things deteriorated further.

some of his motivations in making it weren't wrong, though. a lot of programmers who grew up on BASIC and imagined up so many wonderful possibilities for their programs back in those days have failed to recapture that magic no matter what they try, if they try. bless them all for trying.