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A vending machine, a toy robot, a DSP device... they're all embedded and they don't require networking.

Although AFAIK most of these devices don't use x86_64...

I would argue that most new vending machines and toy robots need networking. Vending machines use it for credit card auth, and lots of kids toys (certainly a robot) communicate with a PC/website nowdays.

But yeah, I'm sure there exist plenty of devices that don't need networking. Pardon me for picking nits.

The page says that it is targetted at games:

"LoseThos is primarily for making video games. It has no networking or Internet support. As far as I'm concerned, that would be reinventing the wheel and you can do that instead by dual booting another operating system. Similarly, it's not for desktop publishing or multimedia."

Given that quote, a lack of network support is a little surprising. Why limit yourself to single-player games?

It's a supplemental operating system -- a new concept. You use Windows or Linux as your primary operating system and LoseThos for screwing around programming. Believe it or not, people used home computers before the Internet.