In 1990 at age 20, I was hired to work on Ticketmaster's VAX operating system in VAX assembly language while going to school. I was basically, an intern, but we weren't called that. Peter Gadwa was a mentor. I worked there 1990-1996. Here are my ASU Transcripts. ASU Course Catalog (See page 261) In my career, I have been paid to program in VAX assembly, x86 assembly, 8051 assembly, 68000 assembly, PIC assembly and AvR assembly. In school, I took 5 courses that required assembly -- CSC226, CSC326 CSE421, CSE422 and CSE523. Dr. David Pheanis was dean. In about 1993, I got a 486 and was eager to try 32-bit mode, so I wrote a DOS program in TASM that changed to protected mode and never returned to DOS. Ticketmaster's OS was "VAXTMOS", so I called mine "Terry's Protected Mode OS, TPMOS". I had 0xB8000 text mode working, and echoed keyboard to scrn. I had simple multitasking and barely a MALLOC. I set it aside. In 2003, I resurrected TPMOS and installed FreeDOS to launch it. I used Visual Studio to edit my files when doing lots of editing, then booted FreeDOS, used TASM to compile and test it. Back in those days, FreeDOS ran in real mode. Today's FreeDOS is not real mode, it emulates with V8086 mode. DOSBox is not real mode either. I had started a company H.A.R.E., so I renamed TPMOS to HOPPY. With-in a month of resurrecting the operating system in 2003, I faced the question of how to handle the command line. I knew it must be the same as whatever scripting language I invented. The only problem was, I hated Unix Bash scripting. I could never remember it. As a regular C/C++ programmer, you don't really use bash often enough to memorize it. I thought, "What if I just use C/C++ for scripting!" In 2003, God told me to stick to 640x480 16 color. Therefore, I was not distracted like all the lemmings at www.osdev.net who go off and get lost in futile battles to write drivers for all the GPUs. Instead, I focused on more productive things, such as writing a JIT/AOT compiler and getting everything running with my own code. With-in a year, I had it assembling and compiling with my own compiler and assembler. I even wrote my compiler before a file system, because I was eager to do a compiler, since it is fun for me. Originally, I just put raw source code into my TASM bin file and invoked my compiler on the code sections store away in my DOS app. Don't worry, it started in real mode but changed to 32-bit mode, never returning to DOS. I named it Doors, Davos, J, LoseThos, SparrowOS and, finally, TempleOS. The awful name "LoseThos" name was not intentionally to suggest "loser". I wanted a companion operating system for Windows, so Windows/LoseThos. I thought it was hip saying lose the nerdy items like the movie, Platoon, where Elias tells Chris to 'crapcan' standard issue items. I wrote my own boot-loaders, so I didn't have to launch from DOS anymore. I was motivate by the disturbance in the market with the release of 64-bit CPUs in 2003. From the start, I made my compiler emulate 64-bit operations everywhere because I did not own an actual x86_64 CPU at first. My stack machine compiler used EDX:EAX and ECX:EBX. I had software interrupts or MUL64, DIV64 and MOD64. In 2007, I got a 64-bit CPU and made the conversion to true 64-bit mode. I didn't start the operating system as a work for God, but He directed my path along the way and kept saying it was His temple. Still I hesistated and kept it secular until, finally, Microsoft went nuclear with SecureBoot and UEFI. Then, I went nuclear and named it "TempleOS". I will command them on orders from God to UNDO THAT STUFF! ::/Doc/Demands.DD The CIA will bow to my orders. The CIA scum-bags, ruined the entire industry out of cowardice. Bill Gates said a company was like a castle -- you have to build walls unless you want to fight every person who comes along. They ruined the hardware with things like USB and PCI. God said to Bill Gates, "You ate your children in the siege." God hates cowards. God loved David that fought Goliath. The only PCI device driver I wrote was for was HDAudio. I thought it would become the undisputed king. Then, I ran VMware on a HDAudio native machine only to discover VMware wanted AC97. Forget that! I also discovered a major rats' nest just getting ATA/ATAPI port addresses using the PCI interface: ATA/ATAPI Ports from PCI It's very simple -- no PCI devices. We change the industry, like a boss. ::/Doc/StdTempleOSPC.DD * Collection of Binaries * Hoppy Archive * Hoppy Downloads * JustRighteous Archive * J Downloads * LoseThos Archive * LoseThos Downloads * LoseThos Videos * SparrowOS Archive * SparrowOS Downloads * J on OSNews * TempleOS Archive * TempleOS Downloads * TempleOS on Major Geeks * TempleOS on BetaNews * Start64 Search for "LoseThos" The ISO files are ISO9660 format. The Z files are compressed. I changed the Z compressed format at about the start of LoseThos. It has been 64-bit since 2007. 2010 Sep 12 http://www.osnews.com/story/23796/Recreational_Programming_With_LoseThos 2013 Oct 13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WgOWrT1yyI&feature=youtu.be&a 2014 Jan 20 http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-/ 2014 May 13 http://www.slate.fr/story/86549/temple-os-systeme-exploitation-parler-dieu 2014 Nov 25 http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer http://www.osnews.com/story/28091/God_s_lonely_programmer 2015 Jun 08 http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos http://www.osnews.com/story/28617/A_constructive_look_at_TempleOS 2015 Aug 03 http://www.golem.de/news/templeos-goettlicher-hardcore-1508-115081.html 2017 May 14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcqWok8AubE Archeology? In 2003, I visited the FBI voluntarily to say hello and give them a CD-ROM. Don't get chummy with police. They unearthed a warrant for missing a court date and locked me up. They had no use for the CD-ROM. It had TPMOS on it. I was at Ticketmaster for three weeks in 2002. I might have put my files on their computer, TPMOS. This is funny. Before occupying my time with a big project, I was wild and crazy in 2003. If I'm not mistaken, there might be a CDROM under the big transformer, here, at our house in the tunnel. The transformer was not seated and there was a crack I might have thrown a CDROM into in 2003. It would have TPMOS. Two times, I tried to delete my operating system, including all back-ups. I would suffer nightmares before the first time. Arnold Swartzenegger went after the wrong Gray Davis! This nightmare was not exactly it, but the BBC demons would hound me. I deleted it once with fear. I never use recycle bin, so I didn't think to empty it and I found it a couple days later. The second time, like Aaron Swartz was hounded, the BBC told me I was Iran and my nuclear program must stop. Finally, I read in the bible 5:38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 5:39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 5:40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. 5:41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. 5:42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. So, I deleted all back-ups and destroyed my CDROM back-ups. I found a copy on a download site a few days later. We have a plenty-good history. TPMOS would be nice, but there's plenty of proof of ownership. You'll even find the Linux mouse file temporarily tucked in there for reference. There's a Linux floppy driver that got removed. I think the J operating system was GPL. The modern TempleOS has no GPL code and is public domain. I give credit. ::/Doc/Credits.DD Stallman will be disappointed I never used gcc. I get his disciples listing it as GNU/TempleOS. That's wrong. * "VMware" is a trademark owned by VMware, Inc.
TempleOS History