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 We will make a spec for a $$4,000, perfectly standardized, cryogenically-cooled, monster desktop PC.  It will have 16 cores, integrated 4K graphics, and, hopefully, 6 Ghz continuous operation.  Perhaps, 64 Gig of RAM will be standard? God said to help to poor buy them.  It is pointless to have a high powered machine if other people have wimpy machines and cannot run programs you write.  Therefore, everybody in the developed world will buy a Standard TempleOS IBM PC over the next ten years, so that will be a quantity of 400 million, perhaps.  God said to pay the US national debt with the revenue.  We will standardize everything, not just the TempleOS related items.  The display will be 4K (and of course 640x480 16 color) and no others.  Everybody gets just one monitor, unless you buy special PCI cards.  Everybody gets two speakers, a headphone, a mic and a webcam.  We make the audio one sample rate and one sample size, but TempleOS still gets just a square wave.  (HD Audio is really screwed-up and requires complicated artificial intelligence, just to route output to speakers.)
 
-The Standard Temple IBM PC will be a full-sized tower.  We should set the size at exactly 2.5 feet by 1.5 feet by 1.5 feet as in the $LK,"Exodus,25:10-10",A="BF:Exodus,25:10-10"$ for all time.  If there is extra room, make a storage shelf for DVDs.  We do not want a race-to-the-bottom, shrinking the size.  Instead of making it smaller, make it more powerful.  We want to remove all cost pressure from making things small.  It must have a CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive.  We need a network connection, possibly implemented as a super-simple high speed serial device.  What about standard monitor and speakers?  The C64's success was partially due to wide spread, completely standard, hardware.  I think TempleOS will not do bad block devices, so we need a hard drive, not just NV-memory or SSD.
+The Standard Temple IBM PC will be a full-sized tower.  Perhaps, stain-glass will decorate the case because God is sentimentally attached to stained-glass.  We should set the size at exactly 2.5 feet by 1.5 feet by 1.5 feet as in the $LK,"Exodus,25:10-10",A="BF:Exodus,25:10-10"$ for all time.  If there is extra room, make a storage shelf for DVDs.  We do not want a race-to-the-bottom, shrinking the size.  Instead of making it smaller, make it more powerful.  We want to remove all cost pressure from making things small.  It must have a CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive.  The vision is CD/DVDs used for a library of games, not installed on the hard-drive.  We need a network connection, possibly implemented as a super-simple high speed serial device.  What about standard monitor and speakers?  The C64's success was partially due to wide spread, completely standard, hardware.  I think TempleOS will not do bad block devices, so we need a hard drive, not just NV-memory or SSD.
 
 TempleOS will have the priority over Windows or Linux on hardware decisions.  We could make it heterogenious multicore.  I think we want 16 non-hyperthreaded cores.  Core#0 is the only full-featured core needed.  The other cores will have long mode, but not some of these: real mode, protected mode, ring-3, paging, interrupts, in/out port instructions, SSE instructions,  MMX instructions.  This $LK,"Graphics Job",A="FI:~/Web/TAD/GraphicsPerformance.TXT"$ is what to optimize for.