The Life of Terry Davis - Creator of TempleOS

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[@Punishment_for_Decadence]

God to Noah: I need you to build me an ark God to Terry: I need you to build me an operating system

[@edgepixel8467]

No flood, so no leakage.

[@unbalancedlibra9788]

God lives through all of us. Just most choose not to listen

[@sci_pain3409]

@@unbalancedlibra9788 god told me to write a ton of shitty comments on youtube

[@Yomush]

@@unbalancedlibra9788 god told me to say that you are full of crap.

[@rainbowfury1019]

We can hypothesize that the bible is written by a schizophrenic human

[@rcd02]

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]

Love this idea because then I wouldn’t have to worry about code others have made and how it works, with potential flaws. Instead I can rely on my own

[@PokeHacked]

@@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.

[@ashyy6819]

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.

[@user-qc4ht2fm9y]

Ashyy I was responding to the OP.

[@ashyy6819]

Bradley Martin Sold Me Drugs Ty

[@bluewuppo]

“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

[@MasonMillerKingofCaturday]

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

[@whatevers332]

@@hamwamson7580 Dumbfuck

[@hamwamson7580]

REST IN PISSSSSSSS BUDDYYYYY

[@ronniemillsap]

@@hamwamson7580 just showed that your life is worthless. :)

[@Rainaman-]

@@hamwamson7580 it is very clear this have to do with his parents remarks (they were conservative Catholics) and his mental state

[@neferiusnexus]

The Pope should honor this man's lifelong dedication and make HolyC the official programming language of the Vatican.

[@schegges]

well technically that would be lua, beeing created at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

[@DrJackJeckyl]

Pope doesn't even know what a compiler is :/

[@stona2705]

@Tony G Pope is working with antichrist we don't need him.

[@mranderson380]

@Tony G That's not very nice to say

[@mranderson380]

@@stona2705 Antichrist have no come yet, you cannot possible know that

[@JerryO1995]

No idea why the hell the KZbin algorithm decided to start recommending me videos of TempleOS but I'm glad I got to learn more about this man and his story.

[@josephmoody5418]

KZbin's algorithms may have just acquired self awareness and may be having an existential crisis and this is their idea of a cry for help.

[@ihateyourusernames]

Let us pray... dear algorithm... guide us through iterations and recursion... return.

[@mrkitty777]

😮

[@KOTYAR0]

Same here

[@adamd416]

Because Linus tech tips just did a video on it.

[@tiestofalljays]

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.

[@chelovekparohod]

I saw the machine and was confused. Looks modern and the photo is about 20 years old i guess. Kinda bizarre like if it was photoshopped.

[@jameskelly7403]

@@chelovekparohod at some point it caught fire and burned his house a bit so he scrapped it. it's real alright

[@amiatanamedmichelle5539]

That actually looks incredibly similar to a laser engraver now that I’m looking at it.

[@turolretar]

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

[@MatthewsPersonal]

​@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

[@safetydoggo2721]

What if you wanted to go full 4k 144fps But God said 640x480 16bit no discrete graphics

[@TiddyTwyster]

*God wants 20%*

[@marioisawesome8218]

he only wanted 20% after quitting in chess. compensation

[@immakarma2516]

Bow for the safety doggo

[@RealOny]

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.

[@tylerdean980]

@@RealOny the reason was that every GPU supports that mode nativity without drivers

[@heathjake25]

“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.

[@kenthefele113]

If you're gonna talk shit you better be able to back it up.

[@wanderingpalace]

@@kenthefele113 nope its not trashtalking its total submission and admiration to his talents

[@user-uk9er5vw4c]

he was surely talented, but that's all. It still hurts how the story went

[@souhil742]

@@wanderingpalace 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@antiresistance]

@@user-uk9er5vw4c this is more than talent , how do u even define this as talent

[@SuperMaDBrothers]

"no networking, so malware is not an issue" LOL

[@bryanleow5024]

Antivirus companies hate him! See how he malware proofs his pc with one simple trick

[@Manuel-pd9kf]

@@bryanleow5024 lmao

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

_immediately writes 0 to every memory address_

[@aeon9367]

no car, so you can't crash

[@epsteinandsaviledaycarepla3320]

@@aeon9367 lol

[@alanwatts8239]

"I'm literally the smartest programmer that ever lived" Morgan Freeman: He was literally the smartest programmer that ever lived.

[@zenpai4449]

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.

[@atomicsparks6709]

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.

[@humersompsen4775]

@@atomicsparks6709 yea but don't forget the casual hardcore racism

[@humersompsen4775]

@valy0f who knows at this point, his parents should've put him into forced treatment, this is why he died.

[@humersompsen4775]

@@bigsoap186 that he was an adult doesn't matter, he was obviously delusional and a danger to himself. These people can't make sane decisions.

[@user-vi3pi9rf7w]

@@humersompsen4775 he had battery charges for beating his dad or something

[@asd131q7]

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.

[@jonuhh_]

Man you're such a nerd, teach me

[@comegeturboyclint]

But is it not x64?

[@no-ld3hz]

It's as if he's not said this 4head loooooolllll just compile

[@Ouba1]

Håvard Moe ofc its not x64 lmao

[@comegeturboyclint]

Oh I just read 64bit on this video and assumed :P

[@Materialistic]

Actually surprisingly good, surprised it doesn’t have more views.

[@voteZDLR]

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.

[@thatonescrambler]

cause not many are worthy knowing about davis

[@fireworkstarter]

@prinniesforeveryone its still more than youll acomplish boyo

[@Agent-lw3fh]

Bullcrap lives matter is more important

[@azatgaming2431]

now I'm the _666th_ like

[@Palatineoffacts]

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.

[@johantitulaer1052]

It's a very sad thing to hate family members. I hope you're on good terms with your mother again.

[@lorisgiampieri9770]

Damn dude, appreciate the honesty Thanks for the comment, hope you're alright 🔥

[@Baki_B]

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]

@@Baki_B I hope you can forgive her for behaving that way(even though it's a mental illness). Wish you the best 🙏

[@Baki_B]

@@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

[@nominis4523]

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.

[@rgw5991]

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 insane

[@nopenah.]

​@@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.

[@Terra101]

"No networking, so malware is not an issue" Frickin genius.

[@atifrafique3764]

i am no expert but how we will have internet????? how do we transfer data?????

[@lucastavares5103]

I`m not religious, but honestly, i hope that his god is real and is taking care of him. RIP.

[@Daniel-oz6qu]

God =/ religion

[@CatfishBradley]

@@Daniel-oz6qu don't cut yourself on all that edge bud.

[@Daniel-oz6qu]

@@CatfishBradley youre clearly bamboozled

[@Yomush]

@@Daniel-oz6qu Having a god is a religion. You may not like it and deny it all you want but the reality doesn't care about what you think or believe.

[@zhongxina9420]

@@Yomush religion is a belief not a god buddhism has a religion but no god

[@hiroshima19]

640 by 480, the covenant

[@IrizarryBrandon]

I'll look at some other resolution and be like, "That's not the covenant"!

[@herbderbler1585]

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.

[@andreit3291]

666 likes

[@godnyx117]

You mind telling me what you're doing one this thread?

[@zacharychristy8928]

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.

[@atomicbritt226]

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

[@tobydude7462]

😢

[@fragileomniscience7647]

Should have gotten him a fecal matter or bone marrow transplant. Schizophrenia is 99% immunergic.

[@theblurredone6058]

@@fragileomniscience7647 schizophrenia is 99 percent immunogenic? Wth do you mean?

[@_NekOz]

@@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.

[@fragileomniscience7647]

@@_NekOz No you're right. FMT is just too chaotic and uncontrolled, would be better to ingest resistant starch.

[@MichaelMichael-kv4gp]

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!

[@vrapbrap]

He wielded the N word without fear

[@TheLinposterIsSus]

He designed the n word from scratch

[@MrBratkenSolov]

He literally said "hey, nigger" to a black dude

[@gugibugi0]

Something we should all strive for

[@the_original_Bilb_Ono]

He was in constant fear, its pretty sad to me.

[@slavko321]

@@TheLinposterIsSus HolyN

[@ano_nym]

"You will see the programmer of man sitting at the left hand side of God, coding his holy temple."

[@OlympiusARG]

Jesus Christ, I'm crying

[@tanzimi5518]

@@OlympiusARG I read ur comment as talking to jesus

[@Veso266]

He knew that if he start to record every bit of his life, he would live forever

[@kevinoriordan3323]

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]

@@kevinoriordan3323 which 2 did he keep?

[@kevinoriordan3323]

@@Veso266 unfortunately "God’s 11th commandment was to not litter". Thereby deleted videos, Hes channel is Terry Davis kzbin.info/door/JZTn-fPu-uIA55UI47_cXg

[@lore4089]

@@emiremiremiremiremiremiremir it was the CIA

[@DreamxCreature]

There are hundreds of his videos online if anyone is interested just google TempleOS Archive

[@Soluxaris]

I hope he's in heaven with his God, man seriously. Death is never easy.

[@Soluxaris]

@Iluv OJ there is nobody on this planet who is perfect, everyone deserves peace

[@Soluxaris]

@Iluv OJ You got this bro

[@Soluxaris]

@Iluv OJ ofc buddy!

[@SomeName_AlsoHandlesSucc]

Awww that was a nice exchange.

[@Nokitron]

this is very unrelated, but who is it in your profile picture? i saw him in my spotify but i forget his name lol

[@realmstupid-on8df]

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.

[@freddykrueger6571]

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.

[@AdrenalineNerdStudios]

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.

[@SynZ777]

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.

[@TheSaival]

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.

[@Koykoykoy]

Just imagine more feats he would make in TempleOS, had the mental illness not barred him from doing so.

[@HIPHOPANTIFA]

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.

[@tubegor]

Moses got tablets of stone from God. After 3600 years Terry got OS. Even God goes with progress. RIP Terry.

[@alexismandelias]

What do you mean "he made an OS by himself". This feat of programming shouldn't be possible. I'm just speechless. This is... Perfection

[@SuperDi_]

I mean you say that like we found MS Dos in a cave somewhere.

[@mixwb]

@@SuperDi_ Aliens 😂

[@danke1150]

@@SuperDi_ MS Dos wasn't made by a single person.

[@Spectator9672]

It's insane, he single-handedly wrote over 120,000 unique lines of code, I'm sure his schizophrenia had some contribution to this.

[@duoge9139]

he made the OS with god obviously.

[@KOTYAR0]

Jesus freaking Christ, he had pc operated CNC milling machine? In the 90s?

[@iamstruck]

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.

[@Michael-zh2cu]

Yeah it burnt down his apartment and that’s why he stopped

[@michaelgunderson6185]

G Code isn't really that hard to program. He probably only slightly reworded his point interpolation system.

[@mixedmaniac7957]

2018 he passed. 2019 they mourned. 2020... God struck back.

[@nandoflorestan]

When they make a movie starring Daniel Day-Lewis or Ben Stiller, you can write the trailer, mkay?

[@AeroZeppelin-rb4pt]

It's only going to get worse from here enjoy !

[@lukisnootis5708]

hearing the Temple OS hymn on piano sounds haunting

[@michaelanderwald4179]

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.

[@PaintsAreOp]

It was a great project but the marketing really sucked.

[@Asylum_M]

get your children Raspberry Pi - they'll love it. At least mine did.

[@St0rmC4st3r]

@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.

[@alexdoescrazystuff]

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.

[@prettymurderdoll4298]

6 66

[@ericpa06]

Oh, wait... is this freaking real!? I thought it was some kind of mockumentary. That is so sad :( I feel sorry for Terry now :(

[@guisampaio2008]

Eric? Eita, quem diria que eu encontraria você em um vídeo aleatório.

[@renegadesmitty]

He Guarded His Temple With his Mighty Nword Sword, Truly one of the knights of the round table.

[@crispi94]

Lmao!!! Hahahahahah

[@KingSlimjeezy]

>HolyC A pun made by God himself through his servant Terry A. Davis

[@UnordEntertainment]

whats the pun? i dont get it

[@KingSlimjeezy]

@@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

[@democard1199]

@@KingSlimjeezy Dang, first thing comes in my mind is Holy Sh*t.

[@mavzikk]

@@KingSlimjeezy "HolyC has similar syntax to" because HolyC is a modification of C??

[@KingSlimjeezy]

@@mavzikk well i wouldn't really consider it a modification since it was built from the ground up, but mutated clone sure.

[@andresklinchovski9032]

The Syd Barrett of programming world.

[@AlterFunKtion]

Best comment 10/10

[@SynZ777]

Except his loved ones didn't celebrate his memory for years after he was gone. All he got was a Facebook post. The internet will remember him though.

[@therandomshowthing8413]

He also kinda looks like Daniel Day-Lewis, that's pretty cool

[@mihirkamat504]

EXACTLY. 100% accurate.

[@DurangoCzechoslovakia]

No idea who that is but I agree.

[@gekkokamenrider]

Holy shit that piano of cover of the templeos hymn is destroying me inside

[@charlieking7600]

You're not lonely person. This reimagination is beautiful in its simplicity.

[@chinchillaruby4170]

Maybe the real temple were the friends we made along the way.

[@sjuvanet]

ACTUALLY TRUE

[@jacobgoodrich6984]

first tech priest lmao

[@Strato_Casterrr9898]

holy shit

[@waharadome]

That's Stallman bless bless

[@norpriest521]

@@Strato_Casterrr9898 nah he's not. But I am.

[@gymalexdude12]

The finest Tech Priest first of his kind

[@pigmentpeddler5811]

​@@Strato_Casterrr9898 I tapped to comment "holy shit" lo and behold

[@stanstaniboy7655]

_"Many design choices for Temple OS were directly instructed by God himself"_ Ah yes, specs worthy of gods: 2:54

[@tralphstreet]

That truly shows how good FOSS is.

[@paulolucero9864]

Praise HolyC

[@superheaton]

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

[@DarkOmegaMK2]

God is a boomer

[@Bodhini]

god is receiving a temple, god is thankful for terry and shouldn’t be picky

[@dominicaguilar3885]

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

[@Rainaman-]

This is what CIA want you to think! It wasn't train that got him

[@brazed420]

Glow

[@poopie1461]

👀

[@ithaca2076]

:(

[@aminou757]

God china virus

[@UserHandle884]

They glow in the dark

[@ekathe85]

He was literally too brilliant for this world. RIP king.

[@rangerbs08]

Damn, terry looks like a badass with that moustache. Such a shame he is no longer with us. Great video.

[@StefanReich]

It's now a "shame" to die?

[@ethanstapley7018]

@@StefanReich Yeah, like it's a shame you exist

[@StefanReich]

@@ethanstapley7018 You are an a-hole

[@nihilsinedeonihilsinedeo3137]

@@StefanReich You are a moron

[@alenparker3056]

Stefan Reich You’re fucking stupid aren’t you? Wake up

[@zbubby1202]

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.

[@graceyudha]

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

[@chitra___]

I need help with Python ffs

[@indracodone4422]

Jesus this dude was a god tier programmer. No pun intended. Making an OS compiler and a language by himself. That’s just madness. RIP a goat fr.

[@Pow3llMorgan]

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.

[@hyperult3810]

What i expected to watch A video about a weirdo who thinks he's an agent of god what i watched A story about a developer god

[@l0sts0ul89]

Would make for a great anime “ I programmed the universe “

[@totallynoteverything1.]

@@l0sts0ul89 you forgot "that time" in the title

[@blackagent4754]

He isn't a god if he passed away like every human does.

[@JohrnyReport]

If he wouldnt have gone insane, something tells me,he would have been on of the worlds best programmers.

[@HarshRajAlwaysfree]

He was always the best programmer the world ever had Source - Terry davis

[@nicolascardenas1339]

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

[@martinsauer9403]

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.

[@KasumiRINA]

@@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.

[@RecruitMeat]

@@martinsauer9403 He wouldve made his own company. If i remember correctly he tried starting one before he began templeOS

[@xcali9x808]

Came from a meme and got interested in his personality and now I've been recommended this video. I am truly sad now that he's passed.

[@Hammid]

The Ending had me break out in tears... ✝️🙏🏻😢 Bless his soul!

[@danielsgrunge]

Say what you want, TempleOS is actually a badass name

[@darkness3ish]

The people who disliked were people who didnt understand his work

[@ajxbl6754]

It might be the narrator

[@whalebone1206]

I'm not a religious man but I hope God was there for him while he suffered, and I hope God is is still there for him in the afterlife

[@ihateyourusernames]

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.

[@EVPpsycho]

“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

[@javenradt1314]

Very fitting

[@Ambitosis]

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.

[@DanIel-fl1vc]

If he wrote an OS from scratch, then why wouldn't anyone give him a job. Such a person shouldn't be homeless.

[@veritatas678]

He was crazy in actually a danger to others crazy. His parents wanted him to take his meds probably because they were scared of what he might do

[@bakatoroi]

He worked for Ticketmaster. It's not like he didn't have the skills.

[@mechajay3358]

@@veritatas678 He was mentally ill. Saying he was crazy is Disrespectful.

[@MasonMillerKingofCaturday]

He had many programming jobs, but stopped working when he became very mentally ill and would only work on TempleOS

[@madwax4771]

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.

[@JackieLombardi]

This is wonderfully edited and researched

[@JackieLombardi]

Also great job of going into the actual dynamics of the code. Not a lot of people who cover him do that.

[@WhosArtorias]

Best comment for this vid

[@kot32_fake]

Terry is somewhat of an inspiration for me to continue doing things in C and C++.

[@betaplay2914]

I need to start learning it

[@Littlefighter1911]

Once you know C and C++, there really is not much else you would need to know. And even then, most other languages are probably easier to use.

[@norpriest521]

@@Littlefighter1911 So if I can understand C#, will I understand C and C++?

[@HarshRajAlwaysfree]

What a pleb when you switching over to holyC or making your own version of it

[@kot32_fake]

@@norpriest521 Not necessarily. C# is more high-level oriented compared to the likes of C and C++

[@sammiller8925]

i learned about this guy today and i’m already in tears. this man was too pure for this world and didn’t deserve his bad luck

[@bahamas10]

Thank you for making this... this is incredible and does an excellent job covering Terry and his work.

[@AdrianDucao]

as Linus Torvalds said mastering C Language is enough, you can basically do anything

[@jeromemartel3916]

As any Mathematician would say, as long as the language is turing complete, you can do basically do anything.

[@chitra___]

@@jeromemartel3916 P.S. In _theory_...

[@linux_master_race]

This was very well done, thank you! RIP Terry, you were amazing.

[@SK-iv4ml]

Thank you for making this RIP Terry

[@MrMinicows]

Thank you for keeping up Terry's story. May he rest in peace

[@donsteppedinside6796]

Thank you for making this. Terry A. Davis is a legend

[@doverz6490]

Terry Davis was honestly a legend it’s such a shame what happened to him he’ll forever be in my heart

[@Ghost23712]

I only learned of this guy from this video and you still managed to make me feel bad for him, very good and underated video.

[@nocturne6320]

This guy was a Mozart of programming, incredible genius. I wish I would have known more about his story sooner, thank you for this video

[@ahmadbaghereslami796]

What a documentary! Great job and well-created.

[@TonyFleetwood]

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.

[@gamersinacontainer]

So happy to hear a story with such supportive fans for once. Helping him until his unfortunate end. He seemed like a good man.

[@saunterrrr]

Really sad seeing the deterioration of a bright mind.

[@Nuclearnadalah]

Please make more videos, this is so entertaining en relaxing to watch, the production quality is top notch

[@ParkerMilum]

Thanks! I've been busy with my last semester of college, but I plan on getting back to making more quality videos after I graduate in a couple weeks!

[@silvorthegrand6976]

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.

[@30YearOldBunta]

This was really sweet. What a brilliant man. Thank you for pointing out those that glow, I will never be able to unsee them.

[@srijanpaul]

I didn't know this man existed until today. RIP Terry. Very inspiring. Great video.

[@cqb1494]

Terry’s life story could make an interesting movie one day

[@ethanbanta4714]

That's what I was just thinking.

[@tdcfc]

Hard to filter out all the profanity but it's interesting to think how people would "hollywood" his life into a movie.

[@svengangert2683]

@@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.

[@jerrydne2912]

It would have made a great Kubrick film

[@teamspeak9374]

​@@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.

[@diegocastillo4836]

This has been a great video! I hope you make more like this . It’s also have a ton of views ! People love the documentary setting that you’re creating !

[@siienoa]

A lovely video, thank you for uploading this and showing what a Brilliant man he is. The world lost a legend.

[@technestudio]

Ultimately, thank you for this video as it was excellently done

[@movAX13h]

Thank you. The legend lives on.

[@SUPERHEAVYBOOSTER]

Amazing video. Thank you for sharing his story with such a large audience.

[@ParkerMilum]

Thank you for appreciating it!

[@druidshollow]

very nice to choose a piano cover of one of his songs for the intro music, i recognized it right away. you have a very relaxing voice, perfect for videos like this. well done!

[@excelsiorcomicsink]

thx for giving this gut the credit he deserves and making him more well-known

[@edvardpotapenko]

This is enough to make a grown programmer cry...

[@orkheus]

I'm in tears now for Terry Rest in peace God's favorite programmer

[@Minitomate]

I'm just glad that KZbin stumbled me upon this videos, this TempleOS looks marvelous in the perspective that just one person did this hole thing. R.I.P Terry Davis

[@LucasIsHereYT]

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.

[@svengangert2683]

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.

[@blewbyboy]

Great information! I'm doing a docudrama about Terry for my film project and this has helped us a LOT writing the script. Thank you so much!

[@Danstarr13]

this man did all this on his own i have absolutely nothing but respect

[@lazlowcarmichael1829]

Right in the feels man. You nailed it with this video.

[@CoolKidCroc]

Perfect video, the narrative of templeos was shown in the best way. Great work man

[@FrankZen]

I can't believe I'm only hearing about this just now! This is thoroughly fascinating!

[@vdochev]

Rest In Peace, Terry. I believe you were the greatest programmer who ever lived.

[@MarkHall-cf6ji]

I didn't think it was possible to love a man I've never met.

[@user-gs5lv4pw6t]

Beautiful. Thank you, Parker.