Inactive Terry A. Davis / Terrence Andrew Davis - Creator of TempleOS (formerly LoseThos/sparrowOS)

I was reading a fascinating article on tricks and hacks video game programmers used in the 8-bit era ("stack blasting" on the Motorola 6809, very nice read if you like the sort of thing) http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.html

and look who I see in the comments

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I think it's the real Terry. His Disqus is full of comments quoting the Bible, TempleOS, and match his writing style. Apologies if this was already well-known
https://disqus.com/by/disqus_OMmutPxA7q/
 
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Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
Damn, just saw he died. The guy was so religious that he wrote a damn operating system himself as his own tribute to what he believes. As insane as that is, it's pretty damn admirable and impressive. Writing an o/s by yourself from scratch is far from easy to do
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He was a revolutionary dude. Long live Temple OS!
 
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He Who Points And Laughs said:
Far more entertaining than anything on TV. Can't tell if insane or OD'd on Redpills.
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RIP Terry. He wasnt even a lolcow, really (insofar as he was genuinely insane, beyond Chris Chan levels), and he was the best lolcow of all time.

I kinda wanna splice this with like some WWII footage, like, Winston Churchill or General Patton. "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself...... and niggerfaggots. Do we have some balls?" yea.... "I cant hear you! DO WE HAVE SOME BALLS!?" "YAAAAAH!!!!" Its like the wind up for like a Kurt Cobain memorial concert for 45 year old grunge-heads or whatever.
 
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DuckSucker said:
RIP Terry. He wasnt even a lolcow, really (insofar as he was genuinely insane, beyond Chris Chan levels), and he was the best lolcow of all time.

I kinda wanna splice this with like some WWII footage, like, Winston Churchill or General Patton. "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself...... and niggerfaggots. Do we have some balls?" yea.... "I cant hear you! DO WE HAVE SOME BALLS!?" "YAAAAAH!!!!" Its like the wind up for like a Kurt Cobain memorial concert for 45 year old grunge-heads or whatever.
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Fucking do it, please do it.
 
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This is fucking tragic.

The man was a crazy fucking dude, but he was an absolute genius. Less than 2 years ago he made a video, safely from his parents house, where he was getting wasted and decided he wasn't going to take his pills anymore. That's mental illness.

He's now with God, running over CIA Niggers in a glorious heaven based off of holy-c.
 
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Stress Sigh said:
In any other alternate timeline where Terry wasn't crazy I would not be shocked if his fame was on level or surpassed Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Terry Davis is a tragic masterpiece and deserving of a documentary or a movie. He's an inspiration. A chariot of gold pulled by a wild horse.
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He has that sort of talent but just as most rockstar-talent musicians don't actually end up being rockstars. Terry would have probably ended up making lots of money with a nice job or even a startup of his own but would be relatively unknown outside of his small circles. I play the terry what if game though too. He really could have ended up anywhere doing just about anything.

I can see him doing hardware and he showed some talent with his CAD/CAM projects. His low level talent is top. Two decades later he could be project manager for guys writing a bunch of shitty webservices, he could have been doing os work, he could be doing embedded work... lol the CIA or NSA would have loved to have a guy like terry making toys for them and before his meltdown and as far as I know his criminal and financial records were clean.
 
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