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by krossitalk 1166 days ago
Not a single original thought. How this isn't about Terry A. Davis is disappointing
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Terry's work is remembered not really because it was exceptionally great but because it was just pretty odd in an interesting way. Plenty of people make hobby operating systems, custom programming languages, and more.
Plenty of people make hobby operating systems, custom programming languages, and more.

...but not with anywhere near the devotion (pun intended) that Terry did.

Terry's software still works.
Probably because he got the New Testament update. Thomas Buchler is still running the legacy code.
Christianity is a fork. That doesn't make Judaism legacy.
I mean, someone could port Trope Trainer to Temple OS.