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

Kosher Dill said:
Problem is, no one actually runs TempleOS on the hardware, do they? I thought even Terry runs it in a VM, which means the host could still get hacked and someone could snoop on God's flat 64-bit address space.
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TempleOS doesn't support UEFI at all, only classic BIOS. It's increasingly difficult to find motherboards that do that anymore, there was a pretty slim area in history where you could buy an x64-supporting motherboard with BIOS instead of UEFI. A lot could still emulate classic BIOS through a setting, although even that's becoming a relic now.
I'm still very confused why Terry was so obsessed with x86_64 when it has a huge barrier to entry for OS development when regular old 32-bit x86 is pretty trivial and extremely well-documented. UEFI is a bitch to work with.

I imagine he was just going through the stages of grief, but he eventually proclaimed that TempleOS should just be run in an emulator. This was after he proclaimed TempleOS should be installed in a dual-boot with your main OS, which, I imagine, was said after TempleOS should just straight-up be your main OS.
I still wonder if he's still mad no OS wants to support RedSeaFS or if he's too schizophrenic to care about that anymore.
 
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The Fool said:
TempleOS doesn't support UEFI at all, only classic BIOS. It's increasingly difficult to find motherboards that do that anymore, there was a pretty slim area in history where you could buy an x64-supporting motherboard with BIOS instead of UEFI. A lot could still emulate classic BIOS through a setting, although even that's becoming a relic now.
I'm still very confused why Terry was so obsessed with x86_64 when it has a huge barrier to entry for OS development when regular old 32-bit x86 is pretty trivial and extremely well-documented. UEFI is a bitch to work with.

I imagine he was just going through the stages of grief, but he eventually proclaimed that TempleOS should just be run in an emulator. This was after he proclaimed TempleOS should be installed in a dual-boot with your main OS, which, I imagine, was said after TempleOS should just straight-up be your main OS.
I still wonder if he's still mad no OS wants to support RedSeaFS or if he's too schizophrenic to care about that anymore.
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Yeah, his demands have been going down for TempleOS over the years. I remember a couple of years ago he was going on about how TempleOS would be the only OS the world will ever need. I don't know if his condition has anything to do with it but maybe his heart isn't in it as much anymore.

Most of his recent videos have just been about his ramblings about why niggers shouldn't be allowed near computers, or his views on women.
 
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isBubba said:
Yeah, his demands have been going down for TempleOS over the years. I remember a couple of years ago he was going on about how TempleOS would be the only OS the world will ever need. I don't know if his condition has anything to do with it but maybe his heart isn't in it as much anymore.

Most of his recent videos have just been about his ramblings about why niggers shouldn't be allowed near computers, or his views on women.
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If I can throw a baseless theory out here, I think Terry just used TempleOS as a means of allowing himself to express himself and feel like he has some control over the world. Terry convinced himself his god was talking to him and instructing him to create something that would be used by everyone the world over. I don't know what's wrong with the guy, besides Schizophrenia, or what he's been through, but he's probably severely lacking a sense of control and independence in his life, and resorted to TempleOS to remedy that, somewhat similar to what OPL does with his comics. All Terry was good at was programming, so that was his medium and what he made his empire out of. But, following the line of progression he's taken on TempleOS, I'd say TempleOS is losing it's luster for him, it's not doing for him what he intended it to. I think he's losing interest, and in that, losing his sense of self and bearing on the world. He's been acting out a lot recently, I think he's just suffering from realizing he doesn't have a place in the world anymore.
 
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January Cyst said:
It's possible but he would only be in hospital for a few days.
If he was in jail the information should be publicly available (if you know which police department has booked him)
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It's possible he could have been committed to a mental hospital, they'd probably want to keep him longer than a few days thinking he might be a danger to himself and others, or at least needing serious help. Maybe he drove to the middle of the desert again and dumped his car while searching for CIA nigger tracing devices.

The Fool said:
TempleOS doesn't support UEFI at all, only classic BIOS. It's increasingly difficult to find motherboards that do that anymore, there was a pretty slim area in history where you could buy an x64-supporting motherboard with BIOS instead of UEFI. A lot could still emulate classic BIOS through a setting, although even that's becoming a relic now.
I'm still very confused why Terry was so obsessed with x86_64 when it has a huge barrier to entry for OS development when regular old 32-bit x86 is pretty trivial and extremely well-documented. UEFI is a bitch to work with.

I imagine he was just going through the stages of grief, but he eventually proclaimed that TempleOS should just be run in an emulator. This was after he proclaimed TempleOS should be installed in a dual-boot with your main OS, which, I imagine, was said after TempleOS should just straight-up be your main OS.
I still wonder if he's still mad no OS wants to support RedSeaFS or if he's too schizophrenic to care about that anymore.
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Didn't he say some shit about god telling him to set it up for x86_64? Or at least some of the settings for Temple OS, though I could be remembering incorrectly.

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If you support UEFI you are basically a fucking Satan worshipper and a nigger.
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And you're a danm dirty CIA Nigger that glows in the dark too.
 
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The Fool said:
If I can throw a baseless theory out here, I think Terry just used TempleOS as a means of allowing himself to express himself and feel like he has some control over the world. Terry convinced himself his god was talking to him and instructing him to create something that would be used by everyone the world over. I don't know what's wrong with the guy, besides Schizophrenia, or what he's been through, but he's probably severely lacking a sense of control and independence in his life, and resorted to TempleOS to remedy that
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I think Terry's OS predates his delusions of grandeur. In this article he more or less calls it a hobby thing for programming enthusiasts.
http://www.osnews.com/story/23796/Recreational_Programming_With_LoseThos
 
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He was always about "no crufty 32bit code", emphasis that he wanted pure native support for his architecture without unnecessary code for legacy instruction sets. His less is more approach is consistent throughout his introduction to TempleOS videos. He even placed code line limits on himself.
 
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He was on or around the OSDev forum a lot in the early years, and was annoyed by the "patheticness" of his peers targeting 386 32bit. (And them making Unix clones)

He's often used the phrase "not pathetic" when describing TempleOS technically.
 
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Kosher Dill said:
I think Terry's OS predates his delusions of grandeur. In this article he more or less calls it a hobby thing for programming enthusiasts.
http://www.osnews.com/story/23796/Recreational_Programming_With_LoseThos
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Well like I said, he already knew what he was doing. I know he was a VAX wizard before he got into making his own OS. TempleOS has some signs of sanity, it may look like a schizophrenic mess but really it's just being a lazy developer. He knows his shit but he definitely took the lazy approach with the OS, only really interesting thing was that he wrote the bootloader in HolyC when that's usually done in assembly. I think he's more of a compiler guy but for some reason decide to make a whole OS which was basically just a compiler.
But I also think he's losing his grasp on reality and slowly realizing TempleOS can't help him with that, so he's losing interest.

Also speaking of people who make an OS out of their compiler, I just remembered the guy who made FORTH, he seems pretty schizo as well. Not Terry-level, but they seem similar. Oh, apparently his personal website is down. But it wasn't too dissimilar to Terry's. www.colorforth.com
 
Doctor Stan said:
Didn't he say some shit about god telling him to set it up for x86_64? Or at least some of the settings for Temple OS, though I could be remembering incorrectly.
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Pretty much this.
Looking at templeos from a logical standpoint isn't going to work.
It's King Terry's offering to Mr God and isn't supposed to have any practical value other than to entertain him. (Entertain god and your ass will follow)
It stands as a testament of faith and hard work and isn't useful to nigger cattle who want their OS to have things other than Ring-0 and need things like network access.
It's like saying the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is a bit shit and can't do anything productive.
 
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It is a shame Terry is such a schitzo because the OS has some neat ideas. Like files ending in .z are compressed and uncompressed on-the-fly by the OS. So if I want a file to be compressed on my disk all I need to do is change it to: myfile.txt.z.

You can extend this concept to folders, maybe even add a .e option to indicate that files and folders should be encrypted and unecrypted on-the-fly.

Though Terry is probably going to end up dead at some point, so that will be the end of it.
 
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isBubba said:
It is a shame Terry is such a schitzo because the OS has some neat ideas. Like files ending in .z are compressed and uncompressed on-the-fly by the OS. So if I want a file to be compressed on my disk all I need to do is change it to: myfile.txt.z.
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Most Linux distributions usually ship their doc files as .gz so this isn't unique to TempleOS.
 
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isBubba said:
It is a shame Terry is such a schitzo because the OS has some neat ideas. Like files ending in .z are compressed and uncompressed on-the-fly by the OS. So if I want a file to be compressed on my disk all I need to do is change it to: myfile.txt.z.

You can extend this concept to folders, maybe even add a .e option to indicate that files and folders should be encrypted and unecrypted on-the-fly.

Though Terry is probably going to end up dead at some point, so that will be the end of it.
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I mean, Windows kind of already does that for you by putting stuff in %temp% when you open something in a zip.
TempleOS has some neat ideas, but nothing that either hasn't already been done better or just something you'd never want or couldn't have in a secure OS.
 
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Great News Everyone!
Terry was arrested for property damage!

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To see his case go to https://apps.supremecourt.az.gov/publicaccess/ and enter CM-2017003010 as your case number.
 
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Brackets said:
I wonder what he damaged. Since it seems to be a single misdemeanor charge, I doubt he went on a rampage or anything like that. Maybe he drove into a CIA nigger mailbox.
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It does seem to be something minor, who knows, prison might have been good for him.
 
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