TempleOSCDV4.12.ISO

Doc/StdTempleOSPC.DD

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ God said He wants single audio voice for the sound.  I think we want a word-size
 
 The video will be a linear frame buffer 640x480 16 color with one-byte-per-pixel even though it is only 16 color with is 4-bit.  Perhaps, we have a interrupt to sync with the refresh.
 
-I am tempted to help amateur hardware device designers by making the hardware interface for the PC simple.  I have fond memories of 1993, when I made a wire-wrapped ISA data acquisition card which plugged into my 486 and had some analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog convertors.  I am not designing a bus.  Earlier, I said the super-simple high speed serial port replacement could be USB-like in hardware as long as the software driver interface was simple like old school RS232 serial ports.  Requiring a complicated hardware handshake raises the bar, slightly, for the lowest level hardware designers.  Most people will be connecting a microcontroller or something that already has a serial communication design, but if it's not a problem, maybe we should keep it simple at all stages.  It was nice putting an oscilloscope on my serial port wires.
+I am tmpted to help amateur hardware device designers by making the hardware interface for the PC simple.  I have fond memories of 1993, when I made a wire-wrapped ISA data acquisition card which plugged into my 486 and had some analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog convertors.  I am not designing a bus.  Earlier, I said the super-simple high speed serial port replacement could be USB-like in hardware as long as the software driver interface was simple like old school RS232 serial ports.  Requiring a complicated hardware handshake raises the bar, slightly, for the lowest level hardware designers.  Most people will be connecting a microcontroller or something that already has a serial communication design, but if it's not a problem, maybe we should keep it simple at all stages.  It was nice putting an oscilloscope on my serial port wires.
 
 The original PC had general purpose digital IO through the parallel port.  That was fun.  I have enough battles to fight, so I'll leave being a savior to hobbiest hardware engineers to somebody else.
 
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Digital cameras will be super-simple high speed serial, but TempleOS is forever
 
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-We will make a spec for a $$4,000, perfectly standardized, cryogenically-cooled, monster desktop PC.  It will have 16 cores, integrated 4K graphics, and, hopefully, 6 Ghz continuous operation.  Perhaps, 64 Gig of RAM will be standard? God said to help to poor buy them.  It is pointless to have a high powered machine if other people have wimpy machines and cannot run programs you write.  Therefore, everybody in the developed world will buy a Standard TempleOS IBM PC over the next ten years, so that will be a quantity of 400 million, perhaps.  God said to pay the US national debt with the revenue.  We will standardize everything, not just the TempleOS related items.  The display will be 4K (and of course 640x480 16 color) and no others.  Everybody gets just one monitor, unless you buy special PCI cards.  Everybody gets two speakers, a headphone, a mic, a webcam and touch screen.  We make the audio one sample rate and one sample size, but TempleOS still gets just a square wave.  (HD Audio is really screwed-up and requires complicated artificial intelligence, just to route output to speakers.)
+We will make a spec for a $$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, a webcam and touch scrn.  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.  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.
 
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 I thought 2.5' x 1.5' x 1.5' was ridiculously big, but it looks like it is reasonable for super-cooled refrigeration systems!
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