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The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God
rossgneumann writes: Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, has spent 10 years building an operating system to talk to God. He's done this work because God told him to. According to the TempleOS charter, it is "God's official temple. Just like Solomon's temple, this is a community focal point where offerings are made and God's oracle is consulted." [The TempleOS V2.17 welcome screen] greets the user with a riot of 16-color, scrolling, blinking text; depending on your frame of reference, it might recall DESQview, the Commodore 64, or a host of early DOS-based graphical user interfaces. In style if not in specifics, it evokes a particular era, a time when the then-new concept of "personal computing" necessarily meant programming and tinkering and breaking things.
Or any kind of demons.
"[The TempleOS V2.17 welcome screen] greets the user with a riot of 16-color, scrolling, blinking text; depending on your frame of reference"
Does talking to "God" involve having an epileptic seizure?
I heard the kernel now supports some advanced calling conventions, such as the one where you scream while all the registers crab-walk pieces of your dismembered mind across the room and shove them onto the stack.
What do you mean? We've always covered the GPL.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Have you tried version 2.0 yet? It replaced those with loaves and fishes. Has a recurring 3-day downtime though.
Nah. Just at the endgame. You're thinking of Buddha.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.