Terry Davis' TempleOS Brutal Take Down of Linus Torvalds

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  • This is an archive channel dedicated to hosting all of Terry A. Davis' old videos before he deleted his channel.
    Full credit for saving these goes to Vincent Canfield vc.gg/templeos/
    I just upload them to TH-cam.
    Other archive channels that upload from his website:
    / channel (this one is fully automated)
    / channel
    / channel
    Vice article on Terry A Davis: motherboard.vice.com/en_us/ar...
    Terry's official website: www.templeos.org/

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  • @fuanka1724
    @fuanka1724 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8312

    "In academia, if it's good you publish it. In industry, if it's good you keep it secret"
    So true.

    • @nosouponhead
      @nosouponhead 5 ปีที่แล้ว +159

      TempleOS is in the public domain though 🤔

    • @theamazinghippopotomonstro9942
      @theamazinghippopotomonstro9942 4 ปีที่แล้ว +593

      @@nosouponhead And he wasn't doing it for money, he wanted people to acess templeos as easy as possible

    • @claudespeed13579
      @claudespeed13579 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      @@theamazinghippopotomonstro9942 He actually was trying to monetize it at some point, just didn't succeed

    • @JasonP6339
      @JasonP6339 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @sgfhk321 lol

    • @nosouponhead
      @nosouponhead 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Villiam Snö Did he... commit suicide?

  • @katseatsushi4888
    @katseatsushi4888 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4192

    Terry talking about simplifying OS and bashing Linus reminds me of Diogenes arguing with Plato.

    • @FEEDMEKITTENS
      @FEEDMEKITTENS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +354

      This is the best description I've seen of Terry.

    • @aelix56
      @aelix56 4 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      Shid and fard

    • @zusty9589
      @zusty9589 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Except Diogenes was terrible and Plato was one of the greatest among the pagan Greek philosophers, if not the greatest.

    • @overclucker
      @overclucker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +156

      Correction: It's like Plato arguing with Linus.

    • @gereraltbone12346
      @gereraltbone12346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +368

      @@zusty9589 you just posted cringe

  • @chegadesuade
    @chegadesuade 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5636

    19:08 "An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity." Truly insightful.

    • @sucklessboi4718
      @sucklessboi4718 5 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      bc idiot cant turn complexity to simplicity but genius can.

    • @stp_79
      @stp_79 5 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      Arch Linux fanboys in a nutshell.

    • @rantanen1
      @rantanen1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      It isn't as simple as that. Especially when it comes to code, of course simplicity is great, but if you are really pushing for performance, code can get very complex chasing that performance increase. so just saying "simple is better" may not necessarily be true. Performance is better
      Linus has addressed this several times. And that way of thinking is really shown for example what they managed to do with Git and it's performance and usability over all other options, especially back when it was just coming up.

    • @snowzZzZz
      @snowzZzZz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      @Erik Arktander I think what he means is to choose the simplest option that fits the context (if certain details cannot be dropped, choose the simplest option that retains those details). I'm pretty sure it's people who stroke off to their own ability to unnecessarily over-complicate things that he refers to as being idiots.

    • @snowzZzZz
      @snowzZzZz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Of course the greater the detail the greater the complexity as you start getting into the technical aspect of how things work, but there is still an emphasis on simplicity in most cases in relation to its complexity. For a given solution, there are usually multiple ways of solving the problem, of which there is a simplest method, and a most convoluted method. What Terry sees as an idiot is likely someone who chooses the convoluted method for no reason other than its complexity. If that added complexity offers some sort of advantage however, then in some cases it might be the preferred option (going against the simplest option rule).
      In terms of understanding the universe for example, it's complex for someone like me, but for some people it may seem a lot simpler (more obvious). If our ability to process information wasn't a limit, then the Universe would likely seem quite simple, where unnecessary over-complexity applied to things inside of the universe would then become apparent. If everyone had unlimited thinking power, there would be no leverage over each other, so there would be no motive or desire for people to show off. People would simply choose the simplest option that meets the requirements (fits the context). There would be no logical reason to choose an objectively inferior solution for the sake of complexity of showing off complexity was no longer a factor.
      What's funny is I wrote all of this because I'm struggling to find a simpler way of explaining my interpretation. Sad.

  • @dragonflyguyx164
    @dragonflyguyx164 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1797

    When you are following a trail, you are not a trailblazer. -Terry Davis

    • @EuricusChryseus
      @EuricusChryseus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I dig your user icon.

    • @dadyking1210
      @dadyking1210 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      int count=0;
      while(1){
      if(count==1000000) return 0;
      std::cout

    • @VH-eq2ci
      @VH-eq2ci ปีที่แล้ว

      "If you can't use command line, then you are nigger"
      Terry Davis

    • @atlmember4045
      @atlmember4045 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      What exactly were TempleOS’s innovations? It’s just an extremely simple OS with so many glaring omissions (no protection rings, no virtual memory, no proper task scheduling, etc) that it’s totally useless to anyone who isn’t a hobbyist. That’s primitive, not innovative.
      I get that the guy was talented, and it’s cool that he built a functional OS entirely on his own, but this just isn’t an especially useful piece of software.

    • @xdeathcon
      @xdeathcon ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @ATLmember the deal with TempleOS is that it did something completely different from what other operating systems were doing as well as being created by just one guy. Obviously, it has issues, and it's not like Terry was in the sort of mind state to make it intentionally useful for other people. However, it's a reminder that one very dedicated person can truly just do their own thing if they really want to. It didn't revolutionize anything or really do anything besides exist as part of a tragic story, but it was something truly different than anything else you'd see out there. I think in some cases, that's enough.

  • @gazehound
    @gazehound 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3983

    "An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity ... An idiot, the more complicated something is, the more he will admire it. If you make something so clusterfucked he can't understand it, he's gonna think you're a god..."
    "That's how they write academic journals. They try to make it so complicated people think they're a genius."
    Wise words, actually.

    • @AlessandroPacifico
      @AlessandroPacifico 3 ปีที่แล้ว +278

      ​@マナンナンアナメ The worst part is that this obfuscation is intentionally designed to make you feel bad and inferior, so they can pat themselves on the back.
      Basically camouflaged and rationally justified narcissism.

    • @kemma_
      @kemma_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      And this is how presidents strive

    • @Walkeranz
      @Walkeranz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      noxxi knox Politicians and lawyers also do this

    • @crazi_ninja8885
      @crazi_ninja8885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      immense cope. sorry you failed algebra 1 bro

    • @marcuswelch4515
      @marcuswelch4515 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Continental philosophy summarized.

  • @ScottMaday
    @ScottMaday 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4223

    Amazing how coherent Trey is when he's in his coding mindset.

    • @calvitocalvon1711
      @calvitocalvon1711 4 ปีที่แล้ว +733

      Some kids bought him some food and interviewed him a few months before he passed and he sounded coherent as fuck when talking programming

    • @calvitocalvon1711
      @calvitocalvon1711 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @Haze The Space Commie th-cam.com/video/HXwNTw4I6Ok/w-d-xo.html

    • @kennethcox6895
      @kennethcox6895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +138

      Who the fuck is trey.

    • @baron3904
      @baron3904 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was his last mental tether

    • @Orincaby
      @Orincaby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +227

      @@kennethcox6895terry davis' cousin, trey divas

  • @StrangeQuark
    @StrangeQuark 5 ปีที่แล้ว +701

    when youre compiling you better not use a lot of memory because its rude

    • @a.s8897
      @a.s8897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      Google Chrome: 🗿

    • @noodlery7034
      @noodlery7034 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      Rust: 🗿

    • @notparadox86
      @notparadox86 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@noodlery7034 C++ is worse at it than Rust

    • @turolretar
      @turolretar ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@notparadox86 rust binary size is humongous

    • @MyWatermelonz
      @MyWatermelonz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@notparadox86 this is just blatantly wrong

  • @mediocrebanters
    @mediocrebanters 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3774

    R.I.P. Terry Davis. Should have gotten help to debug his mind.

    • @MsHojat
      @MsHojat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +249

      he said meds would dull his mind. He wouldn't be able to do the only things he likes. Frankly considering that TemplOS/programming is his only skill, it seems illogical to take it from him since it seems like he wouldn't be able to do much in such a state.

    • @mediocrebanters
      @mediocrebanters 5 ปีที่แล้ว +353

      @@MsHojat The form of help he needs doesn't have to be in the form of meds. Group or individual therapy, proper nutrition and resocialization can altogether help.

    • @raymundhofmann7661
      @raymundhofmann7661 5 ปีที่แล้ว +142

      B.M. you sound very authoritarian, just like the people he surely despised. "Help" is your euphemism for dominating him, seems like he was lucky enough to not get instrumentalized and hospitalized to a drooling brain.
      I guess he did not harm others and among many questionable things he also had many interesting and rather inconvenient things to say.
      Your "help" was the last thing that would have helped him. Most people you have to take as they are or avoid them. Only if there are criminals or bullies or alike you should stop them harming others.

    • @mediocrebanters
      @mediocrebanters 5 ปีที่แล้ว +343

      @@raymundhofmann7661 "... you sound very authoritarian.." you say? Well isn't that just one giant jump to a quick judgment? Talent like his could have been cultivated further for his own benefit. If he was surrounded by skilled & supportive people instead of being bullied into isolation, where do you think he would have been now? Everyone needs help -- that includes you, me, him and everyone -- it has nothing to do with controlling him.

    • @raymundhofmann7661
      @raymundhofmann7661 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@mediocrebanters Your authoritarian claim of superiority again: "could have been ... for his own benefit".
      You would have been his worst bully, because you legitimize it as "help".
      Just like so many SJW's and obsolete women with their perverted childless mother instinct in the "helping industry" these days manufacture their superiority and their victims (child surrogates). The curse of our times. And kittens are the surrogate for the desperate.

  • @fireemblem2770
    @fireemblem2770 5 ปีที่แล้ว +800

    “Linux wants to be a 1970s mainframe”
    That hurts

    • @bf_83
      @bf_83 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      history tells

    • @tossajalumen401
      @tossajalumen401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      and then you see TempleOS style to do things!

    • @jamespilcher5287
      @jamespilcher5287 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      And TempleOS wants to be a 1980's children's toy.

    • @XQQ-qm8ow
      @XQQ-qm8ow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@jamespilcher5287 stay mad Linuxoid

    • @saphrone9749
      @saphrone9749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +227

      @@jamespilcher5287 you were genuinely hurt by this lol

  • @VikinggamingLOL
    @VikinggamingLOL 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2839

    CIA linux fanboys in this comment section.

    • @wedrownysowianin9387
      @wedrownysowianin9387 5 ปีที่แล้ว +239

      You just run them over, that's what you do

    • @madkvideo
      @madkvideo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +214

      Watch out, they glow in the dark

    • @chefk.tremblay1928
      @chefk.tremblay1928 5 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      Its only 2 niggahbyte you fucking MIT

    • @1oneguythat
      @1oneguythat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      bitch boy

    • @JohnnyThund3r
      @JohnnyThund3r 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      Hi, Linux fan. Gotta say, Terry has a point about file permissions, like wtf is it even doing on desktop versions of linux. I think we can all learn a lot from Terry's design philosophy, it's sad to see he's gone.

  • @abriction
    @abriction 5 ปีที่แล้ว +447

    “you know what’s pretty crazy? if you lean over on a motorcycle, it crashes” -terry davis

    • @hellucination9905
      @hellucination9905 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Poetry.

    • @wompastompa3692
      @wompastompa3692 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      "don't do that :)"

    • @vali69
      @vali69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Too bad you have to lean when going around a corner

    • @jaybee5478
      @jaybee5478 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@vali69 Swooooooooshhhhh, and over he head it goes

    • @vali69
      @vali69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@jaybee5478 uumm no... that was me continuing the joke...

  • @jackstephen2519
    @jackstephen2519 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1092

    Genuinely as an amateur programmer this is so inspiring. Terry could’ve been a great lecturer and teacher if it weren’t for his illness.

    • @enriktigasna
      @enriktigasna 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      He still could have if he got the correct help and therapy

    • @BigMan-kp6ug
      @BigMan-kp6ug 2 ปีที่แล้ว +172

      >therapy works
      Ok Mr Sheckellberg

    • @insanely
      @insanely 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@BigMan-kp6ug well, it works... but it kinda turns you into a vegetable

    • @gamuhnerdu4759
      @gamuhnerdu4759 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@BigMan-kp6ug meds now

    • @WinterPyro
      @WinterPyro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@himalayo Nobody's calling Terry an amateur, Jack Stephen was referring to himself as an amateur.

  • @SamTipton
    @SamTipton 4 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    27:20 "Just man up and learn what malloc and free are." - My Computer Science education in one sentence.

    • @psychopathmedia
      @psychopathmedia 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      The programming equivalent of "git gud"

    • @official-obama
      @official-obama 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@psychopathmedia GIT!!??!?!?

  • @lolisamurai
    @lolisamurai 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1563

    based Terry putting the fun and simplicity back into computing

    • @alleif
      @alleif 6 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      based anime avatar

    • @itsOculus
      @itsOculus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      gas all weebs tbh

    • @eddierice3254
      @eddierice3254 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      like hell he did,the os he using is for tards

    • @Tha_Monsta88
      @Tha_Monsta88 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Boomer rip

    • @groidcel
      @groidcel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@alleif based Urabe avi.

  • @lupahole
    @lupahole 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2220

    This man was at his best when talking code. He might even fool you for a typical smart eccentric. Schizophrenia is such a bad illness. Sad to see him go but at least he escaped his head.

    • @_yuri
      @_yuri 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      he commited seppuku :(

    • @towardsthelight220
      @towardsthelight220 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      th-cam.com/video/1YTkeVXu3TM/w-d-xo.html

    • @EnlightenedChad
      @EnlightenedChad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +379

      @@_yuri
      >falling for the suicide narrative
      The CIA got him.

    • @chamonix4658
      @chamonix4658 4 ปีที่แล้ว +158

      the train driver was glowing

    • @davidinvenio3094
      @davidinvenio3094 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      He seemed lucid, yeah. But a programming genius he was not.

  • @ESPIRITUS_A
    @ESPIRITUS_A 5 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    "I have forgot how it works"
    This is perhaps the most crazy or the most human utterance in the universe.

    • @SecondMoopzoo
      @SecondMoopzoo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      timestamp?

    • @V_2077
      @V_2077 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@SecondMoopzoo 19:58

    • @stevenmendoza3732
      @stevenmendoza3732 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      this is wht happens when a genius gets schizph

    • @robegatt
      @robegatt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@stevenmendoza3732 no, just too many things done... an os, a compiler, a complete new paradigm, and of course listening to what God had to say about the whole thing.

    • @uptheroots6248
      @uptheroots6248 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Lol no this just sounds like programming. Even if you write a relatively small program from scratch you'll forget some aspects of it over time.

  • @chrisyates7060
    @chrisyates7060 4 ปีที่แล้ว +821

    Interesting how he refers to Temple as a motorcycle, saying that motorcycles are easy to crash, like temple. However, if someone knows how to drive it, you shouldn't crash. Way way different perspective than user-friendly development of the modern day

    • @balloonsystems8778
      @balloonsystems8778 4 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      I'm pretty sure user-friendly and non-crashing was always a thing people aimed for in computers. We're just used to modern GUIs because we use that every day: they're not actually any less complicated than a PDP11, if you are starting from no knowledge.

    • @MrShedom8
      @MrShedom8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@balloonsystems8778 Yes, specially because GUIs are a lot more prone to crashing anyways

    • @mechantl0up
      @mechantl0up 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      “User friendly’”, whether real or perceived (as in Apple), is the only approach that sells. The average user is unskilled, and whatever approach caters to them will make money. The skilled users are always a tiny minirity. Only a Socialist dictatorship could still impose a C64 that crashes on every seg fault on people. That train has simply passed.

    • @KellermF91
      @KellermF91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Even more interesting that he says when you lean a motorcycle you crash, but yet that’s literally what you do when you want to turn

    • @LedplimmyXD
      @LedplimmyXD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Although even if you know how to drive a motorcycle you are still very likely to crash and die because of someone else

  • @burnzy3210
    @burnzy3210 6 ปีที่แล้ว +488

    4:25 using too much memory = rude

    • @stevebez2767
      @stevebez2767 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      gong fir ad burton,look bach en an(o dom en)gears,owe way sys phonetic spy robot robbiz? tweet my maaan(u.s=green mobo asm general trump 10 bin?)!

    • @WeAretheWalrii
      @WeAretheWalrii 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      It's about management of very limited resources. If someone brings donuts to the office, and you decide to take over half for yourself, people are going to find that rude.

    • @taragnor
      @taragnor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ph1losopher lol yeah. Loved the irony of talking about other programmer's waste and how efficient his OS is then proceeds to dump a ridiculous amount of resources on it.

    • @Merthalophor
      @Merthalophor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@ph1losopher The OS cannot allocate memory. The OS _manages_ memory and allows its processes to allocate memory _from_ the OS using native methods. I guess the problem in his case is that his OS isn't properly optimized for the VM it's running in, and the vm thinks the guest os allocated all the memory even though it doesn't actually internally.

    • @IconOfSin24148
      @IconOfSin24148 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      He's right about so many things. Bloatware is the fucking devil.

  • @johnrcornell
    @johnrcornell 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

    Everyone’s laughing until he turns 70k loc into an executable in 1 second on random PC hardware from 10 years ago.

    • @SpencerYonce
      @SpencerYonce 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Seriously though. I thought the same

    • @BroodYouth
      @BroodYouth หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      when he did that, my mind went straight to "that shouldn't be possible"

  • @alphago9397
    @alphago9397 5 ปีที่แล้ว +814

    "That's how they write academic journals.. They try to make it so complicated, people think you're a genius." Sooo true.. That's also how they teach upper division college courses.. They take the simplest concept and present it in the most convoluted way possible.. So annoying. This guy really knew what he was talking about.

    • @roland3578
      @roland3578 5 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      I'm in the Navy and that's how some people conduct their training. They take a very easy to grasp concept and explain it in a way that make it near incomprehensible. I learned this and just assumed people do this to stroke their egos?

    • @AgentSmith911
      @AgentSmith911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      My girlfriend wanted to become a kindergarten teacher which now is a Bachelor degree in Norway. So she needed to go to a university college for three years and the books she got was absolutely ridiculous. They had about 200 to 300 pages, but could easily be half that length if the authors (who were all previous doctorates at the same school) didn't put in all these completely unnecessary and redundant wording and phrases which made it way more complicated and difficult to read and understand. She gave up and just became an assistant instead because she wanted to work with children, not take a doctorate in child psychology. I'm not saying a higher degree should be easy, but damn, they make it so self-righteous and pompous.

    • @xylxylxylxyl
      @xylxylxylxyl 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      He reminds me of FRS. An electrician.

    • @SevenCompleted
      @SevenCompleted 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      He was going to bring down the entire education system he had to be taken out.

    • @alphago9397
      @alphago9397 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SevenCompleted I never heard anything about that. Sounds really interesting. Would like some sources for that, if you have them.

  • @justuseodysee7348
    @justuseodysee7348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +239

    Linux has 20 gears. The premission system is a nightmare.
    God, this is a 100% truth.

    • @entx8491
      @entx8491 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Go back to DOS then you idiots lol

    • @jaybee5478
      @jaybee5478 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Agreed McGravier

    • @wompastompa3692
      @wompastompa3692 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@entx8491
      You're glowing, bud.

    • @theterribleanimator1793
      @theterribleanimator1793 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@markjohnson8824 chmod -R brother. Fuck the whole thing up right good and proper.

    • @bruhmomenthdr7575
      @bruhmomenthdr7575 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@theterribleanimator1793 chmod -Rv 777 / for true freedom 🤑🤑🤑

  • @billchatfield3064
    @billchatfield3064 6 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    I like the "think different" attitude and reevaluating the status quo.

  • @toggafamai4224
    @toggafamai4224 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    19:25 Clusterfuctique
    Terry had an outstanding vocabulary

    • @zeinfahrozi7828
      @zeinfahrozi7828 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I search this on google but damn is clusterfuctique

    • @aphextwin8520
      @aphextwin8520 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      "clusterfucked, he can't understand it" that's what he's saying i think

  • @PhillHorrocks
    @PhillHorrocks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +486

    I come from a C64 background and I always was in awe of how truly clever programmers made that machine perform tasks it wasn't designed for. Terry talks total sense here. I don't necessarily agree with everything but pushing existing hardware and scaling down makes for a truly better, faster experience. Someone should pick up where Terry left off and try and run with this.

    • @AliAbdullah-oi3wc
      @AliAbdullah-oi3wc 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did you write any ASM for it?

    • @PhillHorrocks
      @PhillHorrocks 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AliAbdullah-oi3wc sadly, no

    • @adamschneider868
      @adamschneider868 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I don't know enough, but this is truly inspiring. I like his whole approach. I am a programmer and I find it troubling how "Complicated" some of the code is where I work.

    • @PhillHorrocks
      @PhillHorrocks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@adamschneider868 there is beauty in simplicity. There is beauty in pure assembly.

    • @eccomi21
      @eccomi21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      I think the issue in today's day and age is simply that most programmers need to solve problems fast and not elegantly.
      I like to think of it as my job as industrial mechanic. I was taught how to Polish metal, cut out gaskets, manufacture entire parts that were no longer available. Then you get thrown into the production environment where the only thing that matters is time. Everything is a hackjob, you barely ever have time to improve anything, fuck making a part that truly fits this machine needs to run just weld some shit onto it.
      From what I hear in my circle of it student friends its basically the same in most applications and websites nowadays. You need to push features and fixes fast, not good. You snooze you loose. The average user does not care how a program looks under the hood or how efficient it is as long as he can watch cat videos on TH-cam and zerk off on the hub. So with more and more programs including more libraries and bloat than they technically need the demand for better hardware rises. In the past porogrammers had to be efficient with performance and space because the average PC had little of either. Nowadays you are just SOL if you try to get even browsing done on a 4 year old laptop.

  • @marcuswelch4515
    @marcuswelch4515 3 ปีที่แล้ว +225

    "An idiot admires complexity; a genius admires simplicity."
    *Sad F-35 noises*

    • @ausilliam
      @ausilliam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      X32: cute mouf and is better than the f35 in every way except vtol
      F35: *opens fan door*

    • @theoneandonlyartyom
      @theoneandonlyartyom 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      chad p26b noises

    • @psychopathmedia
      @psychopathmedia 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Haha simplicity go BRRRRR

    • @Alan-ii9te
      @Alan-ii9te 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Laughs in f22

  • @gzkaneg
    @gzkaneg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    R.I.P Terry Davis.

    • @RogerBarraud
      @RogerBarraud 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      WAT? He's *dead*? ...
      ...or just 'Net-Dead?

    • @frechjo
      @frechjo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dead and buried, yes. That's what the templeOs site says

    • @superaids3849
      @superaids3849 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      he took the first train to heaven

    • @hoonaignachowaneha
      @hoonaignachowaneha 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Racist Google thinks this isn't English.

  • @framegrace1
    @framegrace1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    Starting with "I'm going to talk about Linus using spinlocks..." and then not talking about it in half an hour. :)

    • @BreakTheBeat852
      @BreakTheBeat852 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Marc Gràcia Poor man, he had a lot of mental issues, he probably forgot about it the second he said it

  • @syrus3k
    @syrus3k 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Watching this guy use and talk about his OS is just incredible to watch. Thank you for saving this video

  • @abag777
    @abag777 6 ปีที่แล้ว +267

    I wonder if he refers to background processes as "daemons"?

    • @FSM1138
      @FSM1138 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      well his os is made with "holyc" so i wouldnt be surprised

    • @frechjo
      @frechjo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      "angels", maybe?

    • @leefrnk
      @leefrnk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      There aren't any. He wrote an interrupt routine. Processes are all in ring zero. (i think.)

    • @flhsdrummer07410
      @flhsdrummer07410 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lee frank why do you think that?

    • @leefrnk
      @leefrnk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@flhsdrummer07410 Because he says so in another video. "Modern computers do everything in Memory space." he says "TempleOS uses that abandoned IO space for IO."
      something like ....that call it a paraphrased quote

  • @sjuvanet
    @sjuvanet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +367

    Terry was something special, I hope he's remembered for generations.

    • @tallon3925
      @tallon3925 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      We must keep him and his dream alive

    • @clouds-rb9xt
      @clouds-rb9xt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tallon3925 so few videos on yt tho

    • @megugu2155
      @megugu2155 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@clouds-rb9xt yt? ofc he wont be remembered here considering how censored yt is nowadays. as long as the hatred for the three letter bois exist, along with the term used to describe them, terry will always be remembered somewhere even if hes not remembered by his programming skills.

    • @mitchmccracken3050
      @mitchmccracken3050 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’ll never forget

    • @huacnt7991
      @huacnt7991 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@clouds-rb9xtthere are videos of him on waybackmachine site.

  • @halfway2hell
    @halfway2hell 5 ปีที่แล้ว +507

    Man Terry was certainly a gifted man RIP Terry Davis.

    • @leefrnk
      @leefrnk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      he's homeless not dead, foo

    • @halfway2hell
      @halfway2hell 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@leefrnk That's not what his sister said on facebook you fuckin dunmy.

    • @plantain.1739
      @plantain.1739 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Really wish the man got help. He could have been very infulental

    • @leefrnk
      @leefrnk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@plantain.1739 , I think this is what happens to Influential people. They do need help. But what happens? they get meemed, ridiculed, attacked, murdered. But usually driven to the margins. Ya gotta think: Why do we have a huge homeless population? and Why are about 20% of them pure genius no drug, or alcohol. Why do we invent malevolent names for genius, like aspergers'. Why is genius a "disorder" to the main stream thinker?
      Because genius (in the hoi paloi) foments revolt. Doesn't it?

    • @leefrnk
      @leefrnk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@halfway2hell I didnt know at the time. I dont use face book, it's not trustworthy.

  • @LostBeetle
    @LostBeetle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +393

    His vision was onto something. Think about it, no matter how fast hardware gets, we are always have to wait on the software. I do not see this ending in the foreseeable future.

    • @infiltr80r
      @infiltr80r 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Let me introduce you to our Framework version 16, now it will hold 250 classes in memory while you utilize 2.

    • @snowzZzZz
      @snowzZzZz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Although artificial intelligence may expedite this process quite a bit.

    • @davidinvenio3094
      @davidinvenio3094 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Do you see anyone actually using it in the foreseeable future? Guy dies, suddenly everyone thinks he was a genius. He wasn't. Even. Close. Anybody who writes code for a living is chuckling at some of his comments.

    • @nickb1762
      @nickb1762 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      David Invenio hahahahahahahahahahahahaahahaha

    • @battokizu
      @battokizu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      @@davidinvenio3094 Nice one glow in the dark

  • @SumoCumLoudly
    @SumoCumLoudly 5 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    Visual studio 18gb install, community Edition needs Internet connection

    • @infiltr80r
      @infiltr80r 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Yeah, I used to have a crappy connection so it was fun trying to download it for a week. I gave up, GCC is awesome.

    • @comicsans1689
      @comicsans1689 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Milton Waddams CodeBlocks works great as an alternative to Visual Studio.

    • @sugarbooty
      @sugarbooty 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      VSCodium is my go to, it's an open source version of vscode which is a much lighter visual studio where you can download extensions to suit your needs

    • @Sypaka
      @Sypaka 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Get Visual studio 2008 express, lol.

  • @martbarnav1787
    @martbarnav1787 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Iove how he casually drops the quote of the century 20 minutes into a random rant. Terry was most definitely a genius.

  • @kezdahs3059
    @kezdahs3059 6 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    You show em terry!

  • @charlesblake1001
    @charlesblake1001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you so much for this. I was just searching around for some originals. RIP Terry

  • @KELLY-yv7vp
    @KELLY-yv7vp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    i feel high listening to this dude

    • @sage5578
      @sage5578 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lmao

  • @sadgoy.
    @sadgoy. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    12:11 "when you're following a trail, you're not a trailblazer."
    Love it.

  • @Xzyel.
    @Xzyel. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    "If you're following someones trail, you're not a trail blazer" - Terry Davis

    • @Christobanistan
      @Christobanistan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Said the guy who followed the C64 trail. :D

    • @presidentofallfoodnice8113
      @presidentofallfoodnice8113 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Christobanistansh

    • @psychopathmedia
      @psychopathmedia 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Christobanistan He didn't claim to be doing aynthing innovative in that regard

    • @Christobanistan
      @Christobanistan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@psychopathmediaNo, he doesn't say so, but everyone else seems to believe that. They think he's doing stuff no one else could think of when he really just made design choices no one should make based on real world considerations, like user skill level and security.

  • @konstantingeist3587
    @konstantingeist3587 5 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    Terry's videos are soothing.

  • @luke_fabis
    @luke_fabis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    Poor guy. His grasp of the world around him wasn't very firm, but he did clearly care about users and the user experience, and there's something really admirable about him wanting his users to be knowledgeable enough and engaged enough on their own computers to be their own developers.

    • @NickDude2251
      @NickDude2251 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@pedrogomes3068Schizophrenia

    • @binaryghosts5131
      @binaryghosts5131 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@pedro gomes he had mental illnesses that just got worse and worse.

    • @KeksimusMaximus
      @KeksimusMaximus ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@pedrogomes3068he thinks that bioluminescent sub saharan employees of the governmental entities don't exist

    • @Leo-sd3jt
      @Leo-sd3jt ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @pedro gomes He suffered from schizophrenia.

    • @andreadangelo2299
      @andreadangelo2299 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@pedro gomes he unfortunately suffered from very bad schizophrenia

  • @tom_marsden
    @tom_marsden 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

    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.
    RIP Terry

  • @cedricproper5256
    @cedricproper5256 5 ปีที่แล้ว +674

    If I understand him correctly- when you want a computer
    to act like a mainframe it will, and you will wait for your computer.
    When you want a computer to act like a C64, it will always wait for you,
    even when the hardware was designed to be used like a mainframe.
    This is a very significant detail to private enterprises.
    What a terrible loss. RIP Terry.

    • @questy44
      @questy44 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Profound.

    • @AureliusR
      @AureliusR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@questy44 except he is totally and completely wrong about that.

    • @entx8491
      @entx8491 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      How stupid do you have to be to think this guy makes sense? lol

    • @johnnycochicken
      @johnnycochicken 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      it's really not a dumb idea. think of the trade-off between responsiveness and throughput, for instance

    • @entx8491
      @entx8491 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@johnnycochicken It's a stupid trade off when you could just run gentoo and use it in the shell only to run a monumentally more secure, cross-compatible and stable system. It's all fun and games till you realise you need to contact the manufacturer of your printer to requst a custom driver for your printer like it's 1976 all over again. He is doing what everyone was doing at computer clubs worldwide 50 years ago.

  • @Dantastic
    @Dantastic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +284

    This video is important for students who want to become good computer scientists. I don't necessarily agree with some of Terry's viewpoints, but if you're aiming to be a well-rounded CS major, listen to the video and study up on any of the talking points that you don't know about or don't understand well. Schedulers, spin locks, concurrency, linkers, etc.

    • @CarrotConsumer
      @CarrotConsumer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Or just listen to someone who isn't insane.

    • @HeyHeelix
      @HeyHeelix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Even seasoned professionals can learn A LOT from him.

    • @Cyba_IT
      @Cyba_IT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@CarrotConsumer I agree. There are a million better ways to learn these concepts than by watching Terry's videos.

    • @__.__-_.
      @__.__-_. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      @@CarrotConsumer OK glowie

    • @dav356
      @dav356 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@__.__-_. Fellow schizophrenics crowding around the schizophrenic words of an insane man. Terry's advice is all idealistic and none of it is grounded in reality. If TempleOS was supposed to be a motorcycle, it's more like a wheel on a stick with glitter on it. Both his words and whatever this is unstable and filled with crap that look good to people who don't know any better.

  • @michaelm2434
    @michaelm2434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Linus brutally mogged by Terry

    • @saltedmutton7269
      @saltedmutton7269 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ??? mog was a word two years ago ?!?!

    • @exploding_andrey
      @exploding_andrey 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@saltedmutton7269 time traveller

    • @kevinzhao2235
      @kevinzhao2235 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@saltedmutton7269looksmaxxing has been a thing for like 15 years Tiktok just found out about it recently

    • @maksimkirandziski9660
      @maksimkirandziski9660 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@saltedmutton7269 mog has been a word for a long time in the fitness community before it became a common brainrot term. But the fact you didnt know that means youre either pretty young or started working out not too long ago, or dont work out at all

    • @masterchief1520
      @masterchief1520 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@maksimkirandziski9660you could have just ended your comment after the fitness statement. Or better not comment at all. You're the book person terry is talking about you clusterfucked idiot 😂

  • @davymachinegun5130
    @davymachinegun5130 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Imagine not recording TempleOS videos in 480p like God intended.

  • @bobjinkins133
    @bobjinkins133 5 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    Bob Ross of programming

    • @seditt5146
      @seditt5146 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah if Bob ross had Torrets.

    • @0x1337feed
      @0x1337feed 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tourette's

    • @FunkyEspelhoCat
      @FunkyEspelhoCat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Exept you know, more racist.

    • @iraniansuperhacker4382
      @iraniansuperhacker4382 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@FunkyEspelhoCat I dont think he was actually racist. You can watch some of his old videos where he is arguing with his mom and dad you can tell he wasnt racist. I honestly think he just thought the cia was sending black people after him

  • @rallokkcaz
    @rallokkcaz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    Man, Terry's moments of clarity are so fucking straight to the point. Some of his ideas involved here aren't just luck or some rant. He understands the requirements, concepts and foresight that it takes to make cutting edge software. It's almost like TempleOS is a research PhD thesis in mental illness.
    Obviously his code reflects his isolated state, he wrote a fucking OS that exists only on simple hardware or VMs. I think his experiences at Ticketmaster and such really fucked his mind up.
    However his foresight into KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) for large monolithic programs is actually correct. As our demands get larger we need more small optimized machines than we do big ones. Terry's engineering downfall was forgetting how cheap it is to deploy a million VMs in the near future. But he was most likely too sick to really understand at that point, despite the racist spouts that you simply couldn't control; I truely appreciate your software and methodology.
    RIP T.A.D. 2018
    PS: I never mention security or networking in this comment, which I know this is lacking. However, this is what I'd like to call an idea in a vacuum. It's astonishing, especially in context to other home grown projects, but doesn't live up to our current infrastructure.

    • @DIGITALSWOON
      @DIGITALSWOON 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Pedro Vaz arent you dark skinned?

    • @CPSPD
      @CPSPD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Pedro Vaz fuck off glowie

    • @mrkitty777
      @mrkitty777 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bill Gates would murder to get this kind of technology 🤷🤕😫😪😔

    • @mythirduniquehandle
      @mythirduniquehandle 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah that's why I love all the original UNIX/Linux terminal commands because the rule was write a binary that does one job and does that one job well. Usually makes things not only simple but powerful and effective

    • @psychopathmedia
      @psychopathmedia 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Terry was not racist, if you think that you don't understand Schizophrenia

  • @JoseCarlosVM
    @JoseCarlosVM 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    everybody gangsta with their file -permissionless OS until the virus hits lmao

    • @ianthethird420
      @ianthethird420 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a motorcycle

    • @killerx9009
      @killerx9009 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It wasn’t ever meant to be connected to the internet, it’s a play ground for code monkeys….

    • @a.whyattmann5057
      @a.whyattmann5057 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      God you people are obnoxious

  • @armanrozika
    @armanrozika 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    It is so true about everybody's obsessed with scaling! we never think about scale down

    • @SegaDream131
      @SegaDream131 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Within....
      Without...

  • @Gunth0r
    @Gunth0r 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "when you're following a trail, you're not a trailblazer"

  • @clipboardchannel99
    @clipboardchannel99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    11:52 Two thousand Physicists at CERN
    None of them are famous. None of them made something original, but they're walking around as they're the same league as Tesla
    When you're following a trail, you're not a trailblazer

    • @theblackhundreds7124
      @theblackhundreds7124 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Btw, to those reading the comment, he was talking about Nikolai. Not that slavic looking african business man.

    • @sthamansinha243
      @sthamansinha243 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What is the point of this comment?

    • @joblo497
      @joblo497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The cernfirmation bias is strong in this spintax

    • @dennist.8018
      @dennist.8018 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Loved that comment too... This guy was so intelligent... Makes me cry that i never had the chance to talk to him.

  • @boyfoe
    @boyfoe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    “The Linux people are all deluded.” LOL

  • @darthnihiluz5305
    @darthnihiluz5305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My daughter says, "When I move my arm like this it hurts.
    I replied, "Don't do that -- Terry from Temple OS"

  • @BenRangel
    @BenRangel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    "I can crash my OS. Guess what - if you lean too low on a motorcycle you crash. Don't do that" Nice analogy. But it's intuitive to a human that leaning will cause a vehicle to crash. Less intuitive when your system crashes due to a tiny typing error or allocation mistake.
    But I guess his point it’s not the end of the world if a PERSONAL computer crashes. It’s not a mainframe or a bank. A crash doesn’t affect an entire company, just one person.
    So making a PC crash proof doesn’t have to be top priority if that requires making everything overly complex.

    • @bf_83
      @bf_83 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i would say true to this

    • @dav356
      @dav356 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Except you can make a PC that's pretty much crash proof without making it overly complex with a bit of planning. It's also not economic just to half-ass your idiot-proofing. Companies use UNIX for mainframes. People also use UNIX for personal use. Neither of them are crashproof, but they aren't 'motorcycles'. Terry's ideas are so obviously just a bunch of small shreds of plausible sounding ideas grounded in insanity. I don't understand why there are some many people thinking what this guy says is gospel.

  • @Ultrajamz
    @Ultrajamz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Anybody know of the video where he predicts PC’s removing disk drives?

  • @ll-tr7hh
    @ll-tr7hh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Can't get more genuine than Terry

    • @ec1480
      @ec1480 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TiTiTiTiT he was mentally ill, stop trying to demonize him

  • @goodfeelerman1475
    @goodfeelerman1475 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I keep looking for spelling errors errors so that I can make fun of him...
    BUT I CAN'T FIND ANY.

    • @henrik3775
      @henrik3775 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He is a genius yeah

    • @bigboysdotcom745
      @bigboysdotcom745 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He didnt capitalize the "o" in TempleOS in the beginning bit.

  • @loslosmith
    @loslosmith 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for archiving these.

  • @nattyv9092
    @nattyv9092 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    There is an ASMR quality to his voice if it weren't for his birds

    • @SegaDream131
      @SegaDream131 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That bird saved this reality from early harvest you would give your first born to that bird had you known it's role on all of this...

    • @trippylights2736
      @trippylights2736 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It quiets down afternoon the beginning

    • @Chef_Alpo
      @Chef_Alpo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He dealt with the bird one day, thoroughly.

  •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I appreciate his vision on simplicity. I agree that one should be able to do much with little instead of little with much, as it has become in this day.

  • @anta40
    @anta40 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Any thoughts on using TempleOS as teaching tool in OS classes instead of Linux/Minix/etc?
    Perhaps by adding more useful stuffs like networking stack?

    • @jpdr7081
      @jpdr7081 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't know if adding a network functionality could be considered as blasphemy. We are talking about God's desire.
      (I'm joking go tell the tale of the almighty King Terry).

  • @PeterNCunny-ln4lq
    @PeterNCunny-ln4lq 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    is there anywhere i can get the holyC compiler? is his source code on github? i wanna continue Terry's work on TempleOS.

    • @synastargamer1141
      @synastargamer1141 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      templeos.org/

    • @bf_83
      @bf_83 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      it is on github.....

  • @manticore4952
    @manticore4952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    To me watching Terry Davis is like watching someone like Nikola Tesla or Dennis Ritchie struggling with their mind. This guy could have made millions and changed the world if his illness wasn't so severe.

    • @pichass9337
      @pichass9337 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      he wasnt a sellout

    • @josephbrandenburg4373
      @josephbrandenburg4373 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      He did change the world, and he was doing it for something far more valuable than money.

    • @deusvult8251
      @deusvult8251 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      he wasnt ill he was contacted by God

    • @bloodrain1776
      @bloodrain1776 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He helped with ticketmaster before being contacted by god

    • @daveblueballz6659
      @daveblueballz6659 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@deusvult8251 😂

  • @teknologist7914
    @teknologist7914 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Very smart guy. For anyone who's into CS it's great to these streams where he talked about his operating system and his design decisions.

    • @chrimony
      @chrimony 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It was a great OS for Terry Davis, who was fighting the Commodore 64 war from the 1980s. Yeah, your OS ran your code great, and if it crashed you had nobody to blame but yourself. But the vast majority of people run programs written by other people, and it's the job of the OS to get those programs to play nicely with each other.

  • @digitaldina
    @digitaldina ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Rest in peace terry davis. When I started coding earlier on I was obsessed with his story, especially as someone living with mental illness which was severe at the time. His wit and creativity will continue to inspire

    • @23Butanedione
      @23Butanedione 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cringe

    • @applepoie1806
      @applepoie1806 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@23Butanedioneur stupd

    • @Solokiller-eg5du
      @Solokiller-eg5du 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@23Butanedione your life is cringe

  • @skobywankenobi
    @skobywankenobi ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I miss this man. RIP Terry. If DSP can make a living today you should have been a millionaire.

  • @carlyounger6262
    @carlyounger6262 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Tech fruition is a real phenomenon. You can often predict it.
    For example, we started with two color displays, went to 8, 16, 256....etc, and realized 'Tru Color' (one byte per channel) by around 1990, with (basically) more colors than human's can distinguish between. As soon as we hit that obvious fruition point (enough colors for practically every usecase), we stopped adding more colors, and immediately refocussed on reducing the cost per color. JPG and PNG came out about five years later, but we never added any more colors, to this day, one byte per channel, because that actually is enough for anyone.
    The same thing is true of audio: Blips and beeps evolved into CDs (again, with rapid development over a few decades), but that was good enough, so we stopped increasing the audio quality, and started lowering the price per sample, with MP3 and AAC coming out a few years later.
    Specs and performance *should* only improve while there are usecases that the current tech is not advanced enough to address. From that point onwards, every advance should be a cost-reduction. Businesses often push in some other direction, so a technology's fruition can be denied and delayed for a while in some cases.

    • @Username-2
      @Username-2 ปีที่แล้ว

      1000% true. Really well said.

  • @zeo5009
    @zeo5009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    Unfortunately, it’s never the trailblazer that becomes famous. It’s the first train to run on the tracks to get the renown, not the men who laid the tracks. While both inspiring and sad, Terry laid an entire railroad by himself.

    • @joestevenson5568
      @joestevenson5568 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      A railroad to nowhere

    • @SecuR0M
      @SecuR0M ปีที่แล้ว

      This is really bad but really good at the same time.

    • @presidentofallfoodnice8113
      @presidentofallfoodnice8113 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@SecuR0Mwhat are you on about?

    • @sadscientisthououinkyouma1867
      @sadscientisthououinkyouma1867 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@presidentofallfoodnice8113 Look up how Terry died.

    • @XrayTheMyth23
      @XrayTheMyth23 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@joestevenson5568Yeah he’s over-romanticized online. Dude had a lot of bad takes just like anyone else.

  • @MrMan-np9jg
    @MrMan-np9jg 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So I'm trying to run TempleOS on a Virtual Box machine, but it keeps crashing my whole computer fully, and if it doesn't crash my computer, it crashes the VM. Does anyone have a recommendation on how much ram and storage it should take before I buy a IBM ThinkPad for templeOS?
    I'm trying to test templeos on VM, before I buy the 2006 ThinkPad or whatever is under 150 dollars.

    • @vz1270
      @vz1270 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You might want to check if your pc glows in the dark.

  • @letustalk
    @letustalk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    It's honestly sad, seeing how much potential this man had. Terry Davis is one of the purest examples of how debilitating psychological illness can be.

    • @sixdroid
      @sixdroid 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      bullshits. can you write an entire os if you are psycho or the bullshits you keep going?

    • @arcuz7862
      @arcuz7862 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Don't overdramatise it. Half of the stuff people get diagnosed with is completely made up and at best a ploy for attention.

    • @Turtletanks
      @Turtletanks 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@arcuz7862this is a retarded worldview, but even putting that to the side, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. If there were ever a mental illness worthy of being described as life altering, that one would be it.

    • @BillybobJoelikestrains
      @BillybobJoelikestrains 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@arcuz7862 he had schizophrenia wym

    • @telesniper2
      @telesniper2 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why all these jealous, vile, spiteful comments? I bet they're all from jeetcoders failing in silly-con Valley at their crap jobs unfugging crufty bloated shovelware

  • @Waccoon
    @Waccoon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +288

    He's right on so many points. Mainframe OSes make terrible personal computers. They were designed to keep multiple user accounts from interfering with each other, but individual accounts are completely disposable. All applications have full access to the "Home" folder. Security on individual accounts is 100% application centric, so if your web browser gets compromised, ALL your data is at risk, both locally and even on the cloud. It's madness!
    Signed drivers, encrypted kernels, and Secure Boot are really poor attempts to make people feel safe and secure. It's all bogus snake oil designed to secure business interests. Nobody cares about the security of YOUR data. If they did, every OS would have real backup software bundled by default. Even most Linux distros don't do that (but they ARE pushing for snapshots and cloud integration. Yeah... big whoop).
    TempleOS is kind of a weird toy overall, but there's a lot that can be learned from alternative projects like this. Linux (UNIX) and Windows (VAX) are not going to serve us well for the next few decades. The mainframe philosophy is just flat-out wrong for PCs.

    • @manticore4952
      @manticore4952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Windows has always had a user desktop philosophy as has Mac, it has tried/trying to be a Cloud system which is essentially the same thing as mainframe. I disagree with Cloud immensely and I would never store anything confidential on it.
      And Linux as this guy says never got out of the mainframe philosophy, it's file structure and distros are a mess of that throw everything together from multiple third parties philosophy.

    • @SloppyPuppy
      @SloppyPuppy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Why? Main frame operating systems are great, they are perfectly modular to server any purpose really, from a personal computer to a server farm. They're great.

    • @polecat3
      @polecat3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Found the guy who's never used Linux

    • @SloppyPuppy
      @SloppyPuppy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@polecat3 Pretty sure OP has used linux before, but I feel like he's just wrong in the philosophy of mainframe not being a good thing. That's what a kernel is, a mainframe for a highly modular system, it makes perfect sense that is how rest of the system should function aswell.
      Maybe OP just really likes quirky stuff like sudo random generated melodies.

    • @polecat3
      @polecat3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@SloppyPuppy Maybe. In my experience, Linux has been very good to me. Problems are easier to diagnose and fix. If someone doesn't like Wine and some fiddling then point taken

  • @jonasghafur4940
    @jonasghafur4940 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    im genuinely shocked how much sense he is making at times, his bit about file permissions in consumer products totally rings true; it always kinda felt out of place at times but i couldnt put my finger on it

    • @drygordspellweaver8761
      @drygordspellweaver8761 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Right- there is genuine insight there. Which is why he is popular

    • @atiedebee1020
      @atiedebee1020 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Why don't they belong in a consumer product

    • @jonasghafur4940
      @jonasghafur4940 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@atiedebee1020 because the way they are designed excels in large workgroups with actually relevant access distinctions and actual superusers/admins requiring further access. I just don’t think it scales down very well to the way the HUGE majority of consumers interact with their operating system, most users aren’t even aware of any possible usecase for more than one user account, most users don’t access files over their local network and if they do, pretty much always over some fancy interface provided by their NAS, most users don’t even think about all the intricacies irreplaceable in large deployments but overcomplicated for 99% of consumers and bordering on illogical when scaled down that way. I wouldn’t go so far as saying it should completely be cut out but the whole cluster of account management and permissions desperately needs an overhaul

    • @swolfington
      @swolfington 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      File permissions have applications beyond multi-user systems. It also prevents processes with user level access from modifying things that the user wouldn't normally need to access, like core operating system files. The obvious use case here being a compromised user (eg, a virus/trojan/whatever malware gets executed, someone with unauthorized access, whatever) would be mostly unable to cause system wide damage, at least without jumping through further hurdles.
      IMO throwing away file permissions with the justification of "life sucks, get a helmet" is a pretty myopic take of the situation.

    • @warpspeedscp
      @warpspeedscp 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@jonasghafur4940file permissions allow for easy restriction of critical resources. There is a very good use case which has been users by all the nixes for a very long time now, it works really well.

  • @JasperPeters
    @JasperPeters 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love how everything he says about Linux I'm like uh huh, cool ain't it.
    He then goes on to say why he prefers it differently.

  • @AiOinc1
    @AiOinc1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Imagine loading whole files and still using less memory than the average Linux or Windows install with streaming

    • @Christobanistan
      @Christobanistan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That would not work. The streamed file API would use virtually nothing and the full file API would literally fail on larger files. This is a terrible place to remove apis.

    • @dawnv3436
      @dawnv3436 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Christobanistan His point in removing 3rd party developers is that he -won't have to compile large files- because he will have eradicated code from morons that don't share his mindset, completely, so he literally doesn't have to worry about that use case. That's his point. Why would he need to assume worst case in a feature implementation when he can always assume it's handled way before it gets that to point (sociologically)? This is why he makes the motorcycle reference. Yes, it fails on huge files. Don't write source in files so huge you crash your compiler. See?

  • @Pocket-Calculator
    @Pocket-Calculator 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    The thing is, Stallman never liked or cared for Unix and their design choices. He only implemented them in GNU to ensure compatibility with other software.
    Stallman loved his time share systems with no user persmissions. I believe he also liked Lisp Machines. Sadly, none of those things exist anymore.
    In that sense he was somewhat similar to RMS: both of them used GNU for practical reasons, and their preferred computers and paradigms are long dead.

    • @davidinvenio3094
      @davidinvenio3094 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Stallman also loves the HURD micro-kernel, which may or may not be superior to what is in use today. But we'll never really know because widespread adoption trumps superior works, always. Sad as that is.
      As for Unix, I wasn't aware, although I've heard him talking shit about Linux and the fact that it is built with a lot of GNU code and doesn't have GNU in it's name.

  • @AexisRai
    @AexisRai ปีที่แล้ว +3

    5:25 when Terry says "user developer",
    I hear "philosopher king".

  • @jasonw137
    @jasonw137 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    how is the security of this system if you don't have priveleges or user levels? you seem to be focused on speed alone

  • @tbppuglia
    @tbppuglia ปีที่แล้ว +4

    All three channels linked in the description have been ended by TH-cam for violating their policies. That's TH-cam all right...

  • @TopiVuorio
    @TopiVuorio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    There's a lot of extra work making everything idiot-proof. Idiot-proofism introduces all kinds of human abstraction that isn't particularly computer friendly. I share Terry's vision that it is not the cars fault if its driver crashes into a tree due to poor operation of the car.

    • @tropingreenhorn
      @tropingreenhorn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Consumers are fucking morons, consumer products have to be made for fucking morons, people don't even grasp basic file navigation, how the fuck are they going to know how to properly pilot a computer that can crash easily? Programmers sure, we can learn anything, but the average person can't even handle basic terminal commands

    • @hengineer
      @hengineer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      But its not consumers that really drive innovation. It's the business world. Can TempleOS run applications that run finite element modeling of a bridge construction to see points of failure and stress concentrations?

    • @bf_83
      @bf_83 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Font forget the Materials of the Car!

    • @niggacockball7995
      @niggacockball7995 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@tropingreenhorn basically this.
      computers should be only for people who use it for programming and engineering,
      consumers only ruin our things

    • @zackwyvern2582
      @zackwyvern2582 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It was never the cars fault. Yet if an engineer can design a car that will prevent crashing yet still retain the users control outside of such exceptions, then why not make that advancement?

  • @ojanieno
    @ojanieno 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Graphite is conductive and its particles will fly around in "zero" g, which is potentially hazardous to electronics. And it sucks to write with coloured pencils.

    • @dmitrysamoylenko6775
      @dmitrysamoylenko6775 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They used non graphite pencils of course

    • @thehylian6984
      @thehylian6984 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's not a true story, and he said that

  • @dheatlyblaze2846
    @dheatlyblaze2846 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The other 2 archive account is terminated. Do anyone know why?

  • @manormanman7092
    @manormanman7092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    LINUX TODDLERS, BTFO.

  • @hairyass6672
    @hairyass6672 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    rip king

  • @BudgiePanic
    @BudgiePanic ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I finally understand most of what he says in this video after passing an introductory operating systems course at Uni

  • @leefrnk
    @leefrnk 6 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    at 19:07 he explains academic journalese.

    • @stevebez2767
      @stevebez2767 6 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @leefrnk
      @leefrnk 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      two all beep patty special sauce let us jesus pick all son young honest as me pun.

    • @snowzZzZz
      @snowzZzZz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Amen

  • @Corninthesky
    @Corninthesky 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    What this is is a man who wants something very specific out of computers, ie the functionality and philosophy of the C64. But many of us DO want to run many different applications at once. Terry just doesn’t. That’s okay, but we need to remember that people have different wants/needs.

    • @psychopathmedia
      @psychopathmedia 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The visionary we need, but not the visionary we deserve

  • @Markworth
    @Markworth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I don't know why these videos decided to flood my recommended, but you know what? He had a pretty good point. I don't feel like an OS of this sort could ever be some kind of mainstream or anything, but it could definitely be a thing. It's just like those old computers that ran BASIC, but way more powerful. Is it more useful? I dunno.

  • @luismunoz9126
    @luismunoz9126 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "when you are following a trail you are not a trailblazer" man, this video is actually interesting

  • @HenHouse_Pins
    @HenHouse_Pins ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I centered a div today.

  • @moioyoyo848
    @moioyoyo848 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    People now make fun of linux but they use windows

    • @manticore4952
      @manticore4952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The philosophies for Windows and Linux are completely different. The Windows philosophy is the user sits down and opens their app to do their job, the OS is insulated from them. Mac is the same. The Linux philosophy is the hobbyist philosophy, you have to tinker with the system to make it work.

    • @niggacockball7995
      @niggacockball7995 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@manticore4952 cope shitdowns user

  • @bostwiek
    @bostwiek 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    This man took the hardest route possible to build an operating system, and finished. My closest context I can give as a shoddy web dev, not using third-party library's to build a modern website (by yourself) would take months if it was doing anything even close to e-commerce, rather than seconds

    • @Huddy52
      @Huddy52 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      You ain't a real web dev unless you can animate a humanoid character mesh in raw dog css no javascript

    • @judgedbytime
      @judgedbytime 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Huddy52 disgusting

    • @lermiapolar8680
      @lermiapolar8680 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Huddy52 you ain't a real frontend fiend if you don't model an entire 3d fps shooter in css

    • @psychopathmedia
      @psychopathmedia 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I wrote music using functions in a video-editing scripting language
      Then this guy flexes hard on me by writing his _own OS_ and programming language and making music in that

  • @edwarddieffenbach3270
    @edwarddieffenbach3270 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hey. Thanks for saving these videos. The link in the description for Vincent Canfield’s website doesn’t seem to work for me. It seems to take me to some weird webpage. Any help?

  • @t.a.4356
    @t.a.4356 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So, could this be quicker than actual Windows if furtherly developed?

  • @elsquibbs
    @elsquibbs 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I like how the top right corner displays which key he hit last.

  • @waffleocalypse
    @waffleocalypse ปีที่แล้ว +10

    It makes me feel better about society when I see people appreciate the good in this guy. I've lost family and friends with mental illnesses to suicide. It fucking hurts. I can't help but think that some of them might still be here today if people had been more accepting of them.

  • @christophercarroll6345
    @christophercarroll6345 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Terry's taking the piss a bit talking about trivial solutions considering he built an operating system to talk to god complete with its own flight simulator and first person shooter.

    • @Anon.G
      @Anon.G 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Talking to god is the task, not the solution.

  • @MidwestRecs
    @MidwestRecs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    @ 27:05 what's he talking about? saying something like Maliken-Free??

  • @jellyfrosh9102
    @jellyfrosh9102 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    You can see the fragments of his mind without the schizophrenia in this video. Guy really was a genius.

  • @mukka1003
    @mukka1003 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    19:09 Idiot admires complexity. Genius admires simplicity. - So true!