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TempleOS Creator Passes

posted by chromas on Monday September 10 2018, @10:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the GOD-MODE dept.

RandomFactor writes:

Terry Davis, the schizophrenic individual who was tasked by God to create the TempleOS operating system (and spent over 12 years single handedly doing so) was killed by a train in Oregon (link: https://www.resetera.com/threads/templeos-creator-terry-davis-dies-during-his-great-western-adventure.65752/ )

Details remain sketchy and the death has been largely unnoticed other than by his followers and family. Some speculation is that it was suicide.

An older motherboard article about Terry and TempleOS : https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnj43x/gods-lonely-programmer

"A constructive look at TempleOS" goes into some of what makes the OS interesting : http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/

Link to the free and public domain Temple OS: http://templeos.org/

Have any Soylentils ever installed and played with TempleOS?

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  • (Score: 2) by Unixnut on Tuesday September 11 2018, @04:41PM (1 child)

    by Unixnut (5779) on Tuesday September 11 2018, @04:41PM (#733203)

    I remember looking at it a few years ago, and also thinking that it would be a nice base for an embedded OS. however it was written for x64. Almost all (cheap mass market) embedded systems available are ARM based (e.g. raspberry pi), or old Industrial SBCs which, if you want to find one that is affordable second hand. are mostly likely at Pentium I/II/III class i486 type machines.

    TempleOS would not run on either one of those. You have a variety of open source OSes (including RTOS) for embedded systems of x86/arm architectures, and for x86 you can load up FreeDOS (which does not seem too bad as a non RT embedded OS). Temple OS didn't fit in either niche, and running it on a full x86-64 system for an embedded requirement was just overkill.

    For me at least, outside of using it as an embedded system, it just didn't seem to have much practical use, and I never felt like firing it up in a VM just to fiddle with it. Saying that, I think I will give it a go when I get some time now. See what this mans Magnum Opus has brought to the world.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday September 11 2018, @07:32PM

    by VLM (445) on Tuesday September 11 2018, @07:32PM (#733266)

    that it would be a nice base for an embedded OS

    Of course why not use FreeRTOS... like my Speed Queen clothes washer (and that is no kidding, weird as it might sound, and no my clothes washer is not "smart" nor networked, its just how they did the front panel.). I mean, if its good enough for my dishwasher, its good enough for my dev board, right?

    The idea of flashing my clothes washer with an alternative OS, perhaps TempleOS, is strangely intriguing.