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Terry Davis Was Right

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In 2004, American computer programmer Terry Davis received instructions from God. His mission was to build a new computer operating system to serve as the third temple of Jerusalem. God told Terry to build it 640 pixels by 480 pixels by 16 colors, with no networking and no separation between kernel and processes. It was a strange command, but Terry obeyed and set to work. By 2013, TempleOS was mature and was attaining legendary status among programmers and internet lurkers. Few had ever done anything like it: a complete operating system built from the ground up by one man, complete with games, apps, text editor, command line, windowing system, and an oracle system for listening to God, using random numbers for a sort of augury. TempleOS had interesting new ideas about how different kinds of data like text, images, and 3D models could be freely mixed at a low level, and how the programming environment mixed shell commands and programs, but it was a very limited system overall. It did no

Wolfgang Hasselmann/Realistic elephant In 2004, American computer programmer Terry Davis received instructions from God. His mission was to build a new computer operating system to serve as the third temple of Jerusalem. God told Terry to build it 640 pixels by 480 pixels by 16 colors, with no networking and no separation between kernel and processes. It was a strange command, but Terry obeyed and set to work. By 2013, TempleOS was mature and was attaining legendary status among programmers and internet lurkers. Few had ever done anything like it: a complete operating system built from the gro

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