Terry Davis:
> lives in his car, codes in parking lots
> internet laughs at him while he's alive dies homeless, alone
> now every programmer respects TempleOS as a masterpiece built the impossible while fighting his own mind
recognized only after he couldn't see it
be Terry Davis
> hears voices, decides to build an entire operating system
> writes his own programming language (HolyC) > 1 million lines of code. kernel, compiler, graphics, games, 3D engine. solo.
> WNDows is 50 million lines. TempleOS is 100K. fits on a floppy.
At the edge of genius is madness.
Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, single-handedly built an entire operating system from scratch "TempleOS" including its kernel, compiler, graphics engine.
He built one of the most unique and fascinating pieces of software ever created.