Comment Demands (Score -1) 742
When God is manifest to the World and He claims this operating system,
publically, here's what I want:
* VMware to again support PC Speaker and provide emulation if no PC Speaker is
present.
* Windows and Linux will support RedSea file system so I can get rid of 2,000
lines of redundant, blemished code -- FAT32 and ISO9660. God's temple must be
perfect. I view redundant code that performs the same function as imperfect.
More than one filesystem type is bad, not good! ::/Kernel/Dsk/FileSysRedSea.CPP ::/Kernel/Dsk/FileSysFAT.CPP :1004 ::/Kernel/Dsk/FileSysISO1.CPP :306 ::/Adam/Boot/DskCDDVD.CPP :536
* No secure boot. TempleOS is a additional operating system that must be used
along-side Windows or Linux, not as a replacement. It must dual boot.
* Mandate to PC hardware manufacturers: ATA/ATAPI PIO must work.
* PS2 emulated Keyboard and Mouse must work. The BIOS must enable these.
* VMware should allow ATAPI to connect real CD/DVD hardware.
* Perhaps, VMware can enable faster than standard x86 IN/OUT instruction timing
for ATA/ATAPI PIO, so the bandwidth isn't as bad.
* VMware and others should list TempleOS as one of the official 64-bit operating
systems.
* Windows and Linux should support TempleOS .GRA graphics files. These are just
right-side-up .BMP files with 8-bit pixs 4-bits of color and transparency, with
no palette. Compression comes from the RedSea .Z LZW compression. (Let me know
when you want it.) DCSave(), GRAWrite(), DCLoad(), and GRARead(). ::/Kernel/Compress.CPP
In other words, all hardware and BIOSes must support TempleOS as a native and as
a virtual system, dual booted with Windows or Linux.
It would be neat if TempleOS were burned into BIOS ROMs in the factory, or maybe
Intel CPU chips, in factory! My hope is that it will be finished and largely
unchanging for centuries. I need a good dictionary, first. Maybe, we leave the
dictionary out.
I do not intend to ever support UEFI. That monstrocity uses elf and various
propriatary graphics formats.