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That is awesome. I've never understood how much criticism the creator of TempleOS got. What stood out to me was that it was always mainly criticism on his techn

That is awesome. I've never understood how much criticism the creator of TempleOS got. What stood out to me was that it was always mainly criticism on his technical ability. Is it really productive to harshly technically criticise a man that is plagued by mental illness? Instead of being elitist and shooting down his contributions, the computer science crowd could have focused on getting this member of the community the help he would have needed concerning other parts of life. Having all of that said, I aknowledge that he said pretty extreme stuff as well, I am not saying that any of that is legitimate. I think I tried out TempleOS once, it really reminded me of old teletext in how colorful it was. Now I would love to look at its source code though! HolyC does seem like a cool way of learning C because of the real time results, like coding in Python interactively.

fogus 6y ago
> What stood out to me was that it was always mainly criticism on his technical ability. I do remember that kind of discussion amongst the fringe OSdever crowd but honestly I always found Terry's work motivational and technically solid. I think a lot of the criticism for him was bourn from the fact that he had a complete hand-made kernel, OS, and toolchain and almost everyone else had a copy-pasted bootloader -- and only half of those even enabled the a20 line.
Rendello 6y ago
I love seeing interest in the OS! > I've never understood how much criticism the creator of TempleOS got. Terry Davis was very mentally ill, much moreso than I think some people realize. His schizophrenia made him think that he was married to a Youtuber, that Larry Page was watching his videos, and that he had a telepathic connection to Elon Musk. There's a good video about him and TempleOS by Fredrick Knudsen. [1] > Instead of being elitist and shooting down his contributions, the computer science crowd could have focused on getting this member of the community the help he would have needed concerning other parts of life. I think a lot of the CS community enjoyed seeing his contributions, especially here on Hacker News in the later days of his life. I know that people wanted to help him, but I'm not sure how much could've been done beyond what his family was doing, honestly. Some people tried to help and ended up making things worse. > I would love to look at its source code though! I want to make some more videos about just that, but in the meantime, the source code is included in the operating system (since everything except the boot code is JIT), and if you ever want to develop inside TempleOS, you'll be referring to it a whole lot I can tell you that :D (Terry Davis mirrored the OS online with a DolDoc -> HTML tool, you can browse the source code / system files on the archived site [2]) 1. https://youtu.be/UCgoxQCf5Jg https://youtu.be/UCgoxQCf5Jg 2. https://templeos.holyc.xyz/Wb/ https://templeos.holyc.xyz/Wb/

fogus 6y ago

> What stood out to me was that it was always mainly criticism on his technical ability. I do remember that kind of discussion amongst the fringe OSdever crowd but honestly I always found Terry's work motivational and technically solid. I think a lot of the criticism for him was bourn from the fact that he had a complete hand-made kernel, OS, and toolchain and almost everyone else had a copy-pasted bootloader -- and only half of those even enabled the a20 line.

Rendello 6y ago

I love seeing interest in the OS! > I've never understood how much criticism the creator of TempleOS got. Terry Davis was very mentally ill, much moreso than I think some people realize. His schizophrenia made him think that he was married to a Youtuber, that Larry Page was watching his videos, and that he had a telepathic connection to Elon Musk. There's a good video about him and TempleOS by Fredrick Knudsen. [1] > Instead of being elitist and shooting down his contributions, the computer science crowd could have focused on getting this member of the community the help he would have needed concerning other parts of life. I think a lot of the CS community enjoyed seeing his contributions, especially here on Hacker News in the later days of his life. I know that people wanted to help him, but I'm not sure how much could've been done beyond what his family was doing, honestly. Some people tried to help and ended up making things worse. > I would love to look at its source code though! I want to make some more videos about just that, but in the meantime, the source code is included in the operating system (since everything except the boot code is JIT), and if you ever want to develop inside TempleOS, you'll be referring to it a whole lot I can tell you that :D (Terry Davis mirrored the OS online with a DolDoc -> HTML tool, you can browse the source code / system files on the archived site [2]) 1. https://youtu.be/UCgoxQCf5Jg https://youtu.be/UCgoxQCf5Jg 2. https://templeos.holyc.xyz/Wb/ https://templeos.holyc.xyz/Wb/