“I am literally the smartest programmer who has ever lived.” *Proceeds to show evidence why he is the smartest programmer who has ever lived* Me: Fair enough.
Notice that Mr. Davis didn't use ANY third party libraries. Making an OS, a compiler and a language is an extreme feat itself, but with no external libraries to take resources from? It's even more remarkable. Rest in peace, Mr. Davis.
@@perezr9623 good luck trying to do that, completely by scratch. It's possible, this is an example, but it's not easy, or even hard. It's pretty close to impossible without being a genius.
Bradley Martin Sold Me Drugs Can you like include the name of the person who you're responding to in your comment? It's really annoying reading through threads because of people like you. Thanks.
“When my bird was looking at my computer monitor... 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.” -Terry A. Davis RIP
The interesting thing about that quote is it was found randomly in one of terry's livestreams by the quy who made the Down The Rabbit Hole video. He said he spent a solid 2 week period where he would literally only watch clips of Terry Davis to find things that other people haven't seen of Terry
In one of his earlier videos he states that the reason why 640x480 16 colors was the limit was due to the fact that it was hard to impossible to push better graphics without GPU acceleration.
According to his brother, Terry made something called a “shaper”. Basically think of a modern day 3D Milling machine, but way ahead of its time. You could send it CAD files and it would figure out the correct paths and ‘mill’ automatically. You can see it at 0:56. He also got in trouble at school for using a program he wrote to do calculus homework for him. Actual genius.
Listen, I love Terry, but let me tell you CNC mills weren’t exactly a new thing at that time, google says the first CNC milling machine is considered to be the one made way back in 1952. Anyway, to be able to build it on your own back in the day is quite an astonishing achievement. And I’m also assuming Terry developed his own alternative to g-codes, cause he would. That guy was a true engineer, he understood the principle of things and applied it to different areas
@turolretar the programmable cnc machine has been here awhile, but to build your own one at that scale wasn't really a thing yet. had he stuck with it and sold it, he would've been 10 years ahead of the market
No idea why the hell the RU-vid algorithm decided to start recommending me videos of TempleOS but I'm glad I got to learn more about this man and his story.
I didn't even notice the view count until I saw this comment, I am also shocked this is the kind of quality you'd expect from channels with thousands or even millions of subs.
I miss terry so much. His livestreams were fun and interesting to watch and his livechat was half the fun. RIP Terry. A legend too great for this world.
I agree....loveable character even if he was a little different. He was like a mad scientist programmer Most of us could not create a compiler and create an OS.
He spent the last chunk of his life working on this, and then put it out for free, source code included. Shows he really did believe in what he was working on.
and yet he got hated by the majority of software developers... UNTIL HE DIED. Then suddenly they like him. Same as with bullies who abuse a kid until he commits suicide. Then suddenly "HE was the nicest kjid we knew". Those bullies are all fake evil murderers. Same with most devs. FAKE EVIL LYING MURDERERS.
@@nikos4677 He was both extremely mentally ill but also mostly lucid, if not aware of his own mental decline, even if he seemed to struggle adequately describing what was happening in his head. At the same time, he was also undeniably intelligent, and would have been keenly aware of the implications of releasing his work as he did. In a stream I heard him say (Roughly quoted), "In academia, the good ideas are published and shared, in industry the good ideas are kept and protected". I think it's unfair to call someone outright insane, even perhaps if by all perceivably reasonable standards. Arguably, genius and madness are traits that often go hand in hand, and sometimes without the proper understanding, are hard to differentiate and separate. In this case, insanity became inspiration, but his intelligence likely lead him to his delusion. Regardless, without those factors you would have indefinitely watched an entirely different video, if any at all.
My childhood was Nintendo and my teenage years were Win95/98. I'm nostalgic for those old game consoles, but I have emulators for that. I don't really have a way to bring back my first computer and its glorious 640x480 on a 12" CRT. It was a POS Packard Bell Pentium 75 desktop model and nothing ever worked right on it, but damn did I have fun anyway. There will never be another time like that.
As a professional programmer with 15 years experience. I know some C (not on a professional level). LOL this guy is not a senior coder, he is a god level developer. His operating system feels like a old pc firmware for modern x86 CPU. Fully capable to use his idea of multithreading to the max. I like his concept of using the local resources - kill the cpu, ignore everything else (even some instruction sets he doesn't like - MMX ...). This is making his games run bad (almost no hardwired optimizations, no gpu) - it is on purpose! :D Many programmers, like me, can make something that looks pretty and impressive to non tech people, but without any idea what is really happening behind - the box near me just transforms the code many times and gives a live to it, adds "MAGIC" and it runs.
My mom is bipolar and i hated her for the longest time, then i grew up and we finally took her to a doc and at the age of 19 i got to talk to my mom for the first time in my life and realized she wasn't a bad person, she was just ill. It's hard to live with mental illness and i know i might end up with something myself one day, its sad to see terry's story but i am really impressed that he made an OS all by himself. Hopefully, he found peace and met god.
my mom is schizophrenic it's been 11 years i lost my mom and its no use talking to her she doesn't pay attention to anything but amazingly one thing she still didn't stop doing cooking the only thing distracting her from the voices she hears and she makes good food it's the only way i talk to her.
@@johantitulaer1052 it is what it is like you said it's a mental illness there is nothing she's done to forgive she's my mother and nothing well Change that and thanks i appreciate your comment
Unfortunately a week before his death he deleted all but 2 videos on his channel, he was really not in a good state. All of the clips are from people who save videos.
@@Veso266 unfortunately "God’s 11th commandment was to not litter". Thereby deleted videos, Hes channel is Terry Davis ru-vid.com/show-UCJZTn-fPu-uIA55UI47_cXg
He desperately wanted someone else to take on this OS. You can see it in his writing. He explained everything he did in his code and made videos on how to use it and wrote it all out. Maybe one day someone just as smart will take on the project and make Temple OS 6.0!
The moment I realized he was the real deal was when he casually brought up a side project he was working on. It was a full 2D physics simulation program complete with rigid bodies, collisions, thrusters, springs, and pin joints. He threw together a demo in 5 minutes showing how you can simulate a rocket with fuel slosh inside, and he stabilized it using his own control system description language that he developed. Depending on the timelines, it's possible the dude made a better Simulink before Simulink existed. As a side project.
one of my very worst fears is Schizophrenia , I grew up with an uncle who "talked to God' and lived his entire life with his parents (attached to my grandmother's hip) His brothers ans sister never learned how to help him, they even laughed at him sometimes. But he was always the sweetest ro his nieces and nephew,loved hanging out with us,LOVED church,I think it;s the onyl thing that gave him peace somtimes. Such A happy guy you'd never know he was suffering until ,every few months, he's refuse to take his meds and become extremely paranoid. I can't imagine that sort of suffering and i fear it. Terry seems just as special as my uncle was,May they both be at peace
@@fragileomniscience7647 Fecal Matter Transplant is still not medically approved and afaik Bone Marrow transplants to treat Schizophrenia became more widely researched and applied around 2017 - 2018, which just so happens to be when Terry died. Might be mistaken on the above though, I just did some quick and dirty Google searching for 20 min because I am gonna sleep.
The amount of skill the man must have had to build an OS from scratch at that time is huge. Someone needs to revive Temple OS. Its crazy to think that a person who was mentally unstable was able to think coherently enough to put together such a complex system.
It wasn't that he was thinking incoherently. His brain was working overtime. You see and hear things that aren't there. He was perfectly capable, but received stimuli that was a figment of his illness.
He didn't just build the OS. He created the compiler and bootloader also, no GNU. Like the video said, there were no third-party libraries; Terry created the 3D graphics library, multiple CLIs, and improved on the clusterfuck known as C.
There was an video of him where he talks with one of his fans about computers. He was completely lucid and for a lack of a better word - normal, but only when focusing on that topic. Trully an amazing mind.
The art make makeup the ilness. As a person with anxiety, i can say the music its a temporal scape. The ill was there, but not in front for a short extasy time.
yeah, he actually was prototyping his own machine. i don’t think he finished but he is probably one of the first people to build one that is controlled by a pc.
@@UnordEntertainment The "Holy See" is the jurisdiction of the pope, which is all catholic entities (or something like that, basically think "Catolic Church Corporation" - people come and go but the Holy See stays Its a bit more nuanced than that but feel free to google for more. C of course referring to the programing language and/or its popular cousins C# and C++ which HolyC has similar syntax to So as far as a name for a divine programing language, it's pretty much perfect
I was in a psych ward with this guy. Nobody believed he was a programmer and the staff thought the writings in his notebook was just schizophrenic babble. He figured out that by turning on certain light switches and devices we had on the unit at the same time would cause a vending machine in the lobby outside our locked unit would dispense C7 which was donut holes. The night janitor used to slip them under the door for him.
This was a lot more technical and interesting than I thought it would be. I expected some sappy drama focusing on Terry's illness. The way TempleOS is protrayed here actually makes it sound like a great project. I really miss having a "pure" system for tinkering and recreational programming. And I'm trying to find the best way to introduce my children to computing, like I was with the C64. The only other project in that spirit that I know of is Hackety Hack, which is a lot more abstracted away from the hardware.
@David Hestrin not close enough to the hardware. The point of using Commodore 64 is that it came with a manual and you could start experimenting with assembly language without too many steps.
I know this may be an old comment, but a TI-84 plus calculator might be the best bet, considering the community for it and the ease of accessing assembly in the ones that allow it, being all the ones before the 84 CE and with OS 5.3 (or older) if on a CE. It also has an 8-bit cpu, a descendant of the one in the classic z80 computers of the 80s.
I'm an electrical & computer engineer. Terry Davis was a legit genius that had an affliction he could not control. I hope his genius can be appreciated by many, and some lessons can be learned about the unfortunate nature of mental illness. Miss you Terry, you freaking god damn revolutionary.
Mad respect from cs student. He created his own os, kernel, programming language and compiler without third party library on his own, i can't even do assembly
As the son of someone who committed suicide because of advanced schizophrenia I cannot but sympathize deeply with this man's relatives and fans. It's such a frightful illness and I wish no one should have to deal with it.
My interpretation in Mr. Davis' religious sense, no malware thing because no networking is like no doorway to corruption, so evil does not exist. No need for passwords, no encryption, like no secrets in life, so need to hide them. Single voice 8bit Midi, the only voice to listen to is God's voice. Being 64-bit and offering multi-core threading were real logical design choices. Single address mapping and no paging allowed, I am not so sure about this one relating to religion or life, but probably being having a single house address, no where to hide, no paging, because we take care of everything in the house, not offloading it to other properties or property managements? (But, it does keep it fast doing this way). No GPU acceleration, not sure, maybe like a car or something in life that made things convenient or easier? Just trying to interpret Mr. Davis' art. Just a guess at these things. Hope it helps
I remember stopping by his streams every once and a while to say hi... I just found out he died when I saw this video, it’s truly sad but hopefully he’s in a better place now
Alpha Jay 3.0 Schizophrenia is a mental illness, but Terry was more than just an ordinary schizo. If you leave out the racist rants and vulgar language, you can see the Einstein in him.
“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
@@tdcfc The profanity shouldn't be filtered out, it is that simple. The disgusting hollyweird elites wouldn't be interested in a real tragic story anyway. All they make is anti western propaganda, payed by the chinese communist party.
@@tdcfc it wouldn't be needed to filter out anything if society wasn't retarded. This is what severe mental illness looks like, we shouldn't shame him we should all be ashamed of ourselves to not have a way to provide support to these people. He wouldn't be banging out racial slurs if he had gotten the help he needed. They should make a biography and they shouldn't leave anything out. He was a 0.0001% genius and this is what his illness led him to, it can happen to anyone.
He would not have been one of the worlds best programmers... he already was, it only happens that not much people recognized his work, God gave him unimaginable skills, at the cost of mental health, his genius was truly incomparable
I don’t think he would have been. If he wasnt insane he probably would never start templeOS and never make videos of himself. He’d work in some company and make good money and we probably wouldn’t even know him.
@@martinsauer9403 No guarantee he wouldn't have made a Github repo of OpenSource OS though. One thing for sure if he was bipolar as they diagnosed, much of his work was probably done through a manic phase. Watch some documentaries of people diagnosed with manic-depressive psychosis aka Bipolar disorder, think Carrie Fisher or Stephen Fry... they found it REALLY hard to let go of the euphoria or to even be persuaded that they're not being super-productive, just silly.
To people who found him offensive or angry, that is NOT him, that is his condition, and being hurt by the comments of those struggling with mental illness will only make them feel more hurt and confused, they will make the illness part of them, which it is NOT. They are hard to live with, they are volatile, but that is not them. RIP Mr. Davis.
I used to watch his live streams for hours years ago. I lost track of him. Until today. I am devastated to understand what happened to that poor soul. I had no idea he became homeless. I hope he found peace.
Brilliant coverage of this amazing human story. I never knew about Terry or his OS, but I feel enriched having heard the story. Thank you for producing that.
This is a much more respectful look at the troubled life of Terry than I expected going in. I think you've done a great job of radiating the positive perspective of what captivates so many people about him.
What an interesting individual. I believe he has reached his goals in life. Not a lot of people can say that, as many die in wars "for their country", get caught up in different projects or have no goals, thus wasting their lives. Cheers mate, good to see your work is still appreciated.
I suffered from severe mental illness since I was 30 (I'm 50) and worked for Cisco for 20 years. I was an excellent engineer but was also hospitalized half a dozen times and finally couldn't work at all. I ended up with parents again, so I know some of what Terry must have gone through, but it's unfortunate he wouldn't take medicine for his schizophrenia. Most metal health meds are garbage, but for him it has a decent history of helping. Rest in Peace Terry (Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd always makes me think of him)
As a member of one of the communities he hated, I don't care about the words he said. His greatest achievement wasn't that of his hate, it was one of his computing skills.
I don't think he truly hated anyone. He didn't grew up in that kind of environment, his parents didn't raise him to hate minorities either. It was part of his delusions.
He inspired me to create my own OS too. Delta0, my own fork of Linux, my own Kernel, but i mainly use the Debian libraries and installed the MATE desktop environment. So it's 100% compatible with 16bits system, 32bits system, 64bits system, from AMD Athlon to AMD Epyc processors. I'm working on Delta0_v2.1 : To be fully compatible with Intel and ARM processors.
