Temple OS, The God-Tier Operating System

Temple OS, most agree is the strangest operating system ever made. Opinions are mixed when it comes to its solo founder, who sadly lost his mind. Was he a genius or overrated? Let's decide.

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[Ironbattlemace]

"Idiot admires complexity, genius admires simplicity"
Terry A Davis, programmer of God.

[tertiaryobjective]

“What’s reality? I don’t know. When my bird was looking at my computer monitor I thought, ‘That bird has no idea what he’s looking at.’ And yet what does the bird do? Does he panic? No, he can’t really panic, he just does the best he can. Is he able to live in a world where he’s so ignorant? Well, he doesn’t really have a choice. The bird is okay even though he doesn’t understand the world. You’re that bird looking at the monitor, and you’re thinking to yourself, ‘I can figure this out.’ Maybe you have some bird ideas. Maybe that’s the best you can do.” -Terry Davis

[blackhorse]

Fun fact.
Dude was into 3d printers before it starts to be trend

[clownpiece]

RIP Terry A. Davis. You're writing code in God's temple now.

[DancingSkLtons]

Screw Terry's critics. Those are the same drones that NEVER create anything interesting. There's a very fine line between genius and insanity. Terry was a creator and a true visionary. You will come across a million people like his critics but you'll NEVER come across another Terry.

[javierlozanoguiler]

Seeing how ChatGPT claims a whole team is needed to build an operating system, Terry is basically the contradiction to that claim

[DevToolsMadeSimple]

To call his creation "useless" is shortsighted. Just because something doesn't have a clear/obvious use doesn't make it useless. From new challenges new tools and techniques arise, so even if the problem solved by the new tools/techniques carries/has no weight/impact, there is always the chance that the new tools can help solve other more meaningful problems. Whether he thought of it this way or not is a question for another day...

[manniquinxe]

4:05 and after man I don't feel like you executed this correctly. Terry did not suffer from any kind of a drug induced psychosis, he was schizophrenic. It wasn't even genetic - he was schizophrenic.

It WAS clear that he was not a regular drug user. For you to blur the lines between schizophrenia and drug psychosis, leading people to believe that drugs were a part of this issue, is just wrong. Terry was not a drug addict and he suffered greatly from the disease schizophrenia.

[netoeli]

my favorite quote from terry would be "just because you know how to follow a trail, that doesn't make you a trailblazer" . That's the kind of quote that will humble a man.

[honkhonkler]

Once A.I. takes over everything including the internet we will all have to turn to Temple OS.
Rule of colel. "Temple OS versus a A I controlled internet" = 443 (Ordinal)

[plebisMaximus]

Terry was a brilliant, brilliant man and TempleOS is an incredible achievement. It might be easy to call it impractical and useless if your goal with an OS is daily use, but it was never intended to be. It was a terminal for recreational programming and within that vision, I'd say it's pretty solid. While it's great he got out on his own instead of becoming an office rat for some major company with no regard for brilliance, it's extremely sad genius ended up so far in his delusions. He wasn't way off when calling himself the greatest programmer that ever lived.

[MondoMurderface]

Davis doesn't really have a "Dark" side. Even in his confusion, he makes sense and means well. He just scared people.

[kumanderlinux]

It was a modern C64. That's all he wanted to make. And boy did he succeed. Great video btw!

[napi]

Terry is a terrific programmer no doubts about it.

[JonathanMcCormack]

Former OpenVMS admin here. While I loved VAX machines, I wouldn’t say any of them would have been seen as a supercomputer. The 9000 was pretty advanced for its time, but was just a fast mainframe.

Some of the later AlphaServers were supercomputers though.

[wompastompa]

I love the stylistic choice of editing this video in a way that makes me feel schizophrenic like Terry.

[spiffinz]

The man must forever be made legend for warning us about the glowies in the night

[alphamineron]

I often see people worship others (especially in tech because most aren’t knowledgeable enough, including the tech people) simply because they can’t wrap their head around what the other person achieved. People definitely do impressive things but not so much that you worship them. Like Terry said, it’s a sign of the “average IQ” that they praise complexity that confuses them.

Like all worships, people take this heavily personal. Temple OS has been the only exception that comes to mind which is truly worth “worship praise” because no matter how deep and profound of an understanding you can have, creating an OS from scratch without any help is a phenomenal achievement. Nobody else has ever done it… and I don’t think anyone else will… Terry truly made his name unique in all of human history.

[BrunoVinicius-ixwt]

Holy C has got to be the most awesome programming language name ever.

[ihabhatim]

I'm still chuckling at "holy C"...