Oracle OS

One persistent subject of interest to amateur cyberarcheologists is the so-called Oracle OS. It was said to have been programmed by a mad monk who claimed it was a conduit through which the Light could communicate with mortals. While many pieces of software claiming to be the original Oracle OS are in fact full operating systems, able to execute other programs while running, the earliest mentions of the software describe it as a standalone piece of machine code designed to boot and run directly on the processor.

Many, many software images claiming to be the true Oracle OS are known. Cruder examples are little more than random number generators used to for divination. More sophisticated attempts employ anything from Markov chains to complex AI chatbots that form more coherent sentences. In modern times one doesn't so much speak of THE oracle OS so much as AN oracle OS, divination programs used much like Ouija boards. Such programs are popular among the casually spiritually inclined, but are condemned by the Claravian Magisterium as superstition.