Credits

I, Terry A. Davis, wrote all of TempleOS over the past 20.6 years (full-time).  
It can run on some bare metal 64-bit PC's from about 2005-2010 with no layering, 
libraries, tools, modules or anything from other sources.  Otherwise, you run it 
in a virtual machine, like VMware, QEMU or VirtualBox.  It is independent and 
stands alone.  It has no networking, so it certainly doesn't call home.  100% of 
the src code is including on all distro's, from the kernel to the compiler to 
the boot loaders!  It is public domain, not GPL.

*) ::/Kernel/FontStd.HC, is taken from FreeDOS.  It's public domain.

*) ::/Kernel/FontCyrillic.HC, is taken from OrientDisplay without permission.

*) ATA Reg and Cmd Definitions are originally from Linux.  Later, I got the 
spec.

*) The heap algorithm, ::/Kernel/Mem/MAllocFree.HC, is adapted from one I saw at 
Ticketmaster when I worked on their VAX operating system.

*) The LZW compression algorithm, ::/Kernel/Compress.HC, came from a magazine 
and I implemented it when I worked for Ticketmaster.

*) The adaptive-step-size-Runge-Kutta algorithm, ::/Adam/AMathODE.HC, is adapted 
from the book, Numeric Recipies in C.

*) The mountain in some games is from http://www.public-domain-photos.com.  The 
wolf in BlackDiamond is also from there.  I took watermarked photos and 
converted to 16 color.

*) The FAT32 file system is owned by MicroSoft.

*) A few features were inspired by MATLAB, such as ans in expressions at the 
command-line.  There is a lot of MSDOS , Windows, VAXTMOS (VAX Ticketmaster 
O.S.) and Unix inspiration, too, such as drive letters, command names, etc.

*) I included PCIDevice Lst File.

*) Thanks to whoever wrote this CppHtml.HC.Z.  I'm a novice on web stuff and you 
helped me with html.  See ::/Demo/ToHtmlToTXTDemo/ToHtml.HC.

*) I looked at bootable CD boot sects, but didn't learn anything, finding it 
easier to make my own.

*) I think I got my original PC speaker code from Borland C.

*) I found PS/2 keyboard and mouse code on the net and documentation.  My code 
is very different.  I found VGA reg info on the net.

*) Thanks to http://www.osdev.org for a couple tips.

*) God told me to stick with 640x480 16 color and single-voice 8-bit signed 
MIDI-like sample for sound.   He kept me from zombie-walking into making child 
windows like Windows.  Instead, I made one window per task with no child 
windows.  He also guided my progress, very obviously.

*) I got Webster's Dictionary and The King James Bible from Project Gutenberg.

*) John Carmack inspired me to use "Clamp" as a name instead of "Limit".  He 
inspired me to use "needle" and "haystack" as names.  He inspired me to simplify 
my Frames-Per-Second code.

*) Bill Gates inspired me to add comments to my Help & Index.

*) I hired an artist, Cody Rigby, for $3,000 worth of pixel art.

*) Erik van der Karbargenbok wrote /Downloads shell scripts -- gw.

*) The random number generator is from Donald Knuth in the wikipedia entry for 
Linear_congruential_generator.


* "MSDOS", "Windows", "MovieMaker", "MS Paint" and "FAT32" are trademarks owned 
by MicroSoft Corp.
* "SiteBuilder" is a trademark owned by Yahoo! Inc.
* "MagicISO" is a trademark owned by MagicISO Corp.
* "MATLAB" is a trademark owned by The Math Works, Inc.
* "FreeDOS" is a trademark owned by Jim Hall.
* "QEMU" is a trademark owned by Fabrice Bellard.
* "VAX" is a trademark owned by Digital Equipment Corp.
* "Linux" is a trademark owned by Linus Torvalds.
* "VAXTMOS" is a trademark owned by Ticketmaster.