I have a lot of respect for Terry and it's nice to see him included alongside other developers. He's not the most likeable guy, but I doubt he's happy about that either.<p>He writes software to be beautiful. He can take pride in his work because his intentions are absolutely pure. When I program, I take shortcuts to ship as quickly as possible, and then I throw some ads on the final product to make money. I am a sellout, but Terry is not, and I envy him for that.<p>I especially like his HolyC language. It is simple, elegant, and comfortably familiar:<p><a href="http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/HolyC.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/HolyC.html</a>
Since TempleOSV207 is shadowbanned here's his response in this thread:<p>> Yeah, I did. Now, I use Linux. Normally stuff like this launched me into an existential crisis. "Oh, God, the stress! Why God!? My world has a MAJOR thing to worry about -- misleading people maybe or something like that."
I'm not quite as much a coward. I think I had good reason. Cowardess is not a virtue. God loved King David.
Damn, I look awful. Oh well. I've become a freak hermit-- don't know how to smile, anymore.<p>> You poor people don't know God.
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This is my favorite Terry Davis quote (from his website):<p>----10/02/13 02:34:50----<p>I used to drink when I was young. I would wake-up and think about my shameful
behavior and be stoic, I guess. Recently, I've been fighting hard to break-out
of my prison. Ten years? Insanity.<p>God is perfectly just. Sadly, it's not like I've suffered, exactly. When you
get out of control and call people "niggers", that can't be good. God talks.
I'm not exactly believed. Everybody is cruel and give no clue what they make of
me.<p>God is perfectly just. The countless generations before me? It appears that I
get my own little principality of which I sometimes seem supreme.
Odd coincidence that I was just watching a video on TempleOS today. I had heard about Terry Davis and TempleOS previously and his God-worshipping operating system - but had never seen it in action.<p>This video gives you a glimpse into what he is like and what he has achieved on his quest to build the operating system for God: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EViG0Q4lTeA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EViG0Q4lTeA</a><p>Very, very bizarre yet mildly interesting. I was surprised to read he only ever runs it in VMWare - I thought perhaps he was just running it on a very specific set of hardware.
> I am aware of a 70 core Knights Landing Intel CPU coming-out. That might be nice.<p>It seems that no matter who the programmer is, some constants remain: we like big numbers.
That reminded me of "LoseThos". It would have been an interesting coincidence if multiple people were asked by God to create a 64-bit OS, but it is the same guy; he renamed it into TempleOS.
I am at the same time in awe at the technical accomplishment and cringing at the religious twist. I've never seen the two concerns merged quite so tightly.
Doesn't running TempleOS in VMWare completely <i>ruin</i> the aesthetic??? Pretty surprised by that part.<p>When I heard about LoseThos I thought it was really bad ass. Like people who build their own house from scratch and live in it. The idea was to strip it down and get close to the metal.<p>But if you're running it in VMWare, you basically have an entire OS underneath, a bunch of opaque code... doesn't fit IMO :/
I'm going to assume Terry either found some moments of calm or changed up his meds.<p>Either way, nice so see him in the public eye without all the vitriol.
Could not help but wonder about this, if history was re-ordered appropriately, operating systems hacking could have been a major organized religion associated with all the heft, influence, funds and muscle that they are associated with.<p>Many researchers believe that the religious episodes that prophets talk about, their visions and hearings that led them to their religion, may have been psychotic episodes. I find this hypothesis extremely believable.<p>I think for something to become an organized religion more deliberate and political measures are required. Also needed: powerful people with axes to grind, but the roots of theistic organized religion of our times could surely have been aural/visual hallucinations and schizophrenia of their prophets who could have been just as smart, interesting, and at the same time human as Terry Davis.<p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/08/02/i_thought_i_was_a_prophet/" rel="nofollow">http://www.salon.com/2013/08/02/i_thought_i_was_a_prophet/</a>
Yeah, I did. Now, I use Linux. Normally stuff like this launched me into an existential crisis. "Oh, God, the stress! Why God!? My world has a MAJOR thing to worry about -- misleading people maybe or something like that."<p>I'm not quite as much a coward. I think I had good reason. Cowardess is not a virtue. God loved King David.<p>Damn, I look awful. Oh well. I've become a freak hermit-- don't know how to smile, anymore.