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-All desktop PCs will have 8-channel OCTART super-simple high speed serial ports to replace USB.  They are simpler because the driver is as simple as old school $LK,"RS232 Serial",A="FI:::/Doc/Comm.HC"$, they have no USB end-points and they have no USB human interface device reports.  Computer mice will all have exactly two buttons and one wheel.  Game controllers will all be the standard deluxe $TX,"game console controllers",HTML="http://www.gamestop.com/pc/accessories/steam-controller/121865"$ that are popular today.  It will have 8 big TX and 8 big RX fifos that allow flow control characters to jump the queue.  It should be locked-down to as few options as possible, like 8-1-N only, although hardware may use a USB frame, not an RS232, so stop bits might not be relevant.  Perhaps, just two baud rates -- high and low speed are needed.  Low speed is good for slow microcontrollers and allows longer cable length.  Keyboard, mouse and game controller can be low speed.
+All desktop PCs will have 8-channel OCTART super-simple high speed serial ports to replace USB.  They are simpler because the driver is as simple as old school $LK,"RS232 Serial",A="FI:::/Doc/Comm.HC"$, they have no USB end-points and they have no USB human interface device reports.  Computer mice will all have exactly two bttns and one wheel.  Game controllers will all be the standard deluxe $TX,"game console controllers",HTML="http://www.gamestop.com/pc/accessories/steam-controller/121865"$ that are popular today.  It will have 8 big TX and 8 big RX fifos that allow flow control characters to jump the queue.  It should be locked-down to as few options as possible, like 8-1-N only, although hardware may use a USB frame, not an RS232, so stop bits might not be relevant.  Perhaps, just two baud rates -- high and low speed are needed.  Low speed is good for slow microcontrollers and allows longer cable length.  Keyboard, mouse and game controller can be low speed.
 
 The USB creators banned generic devices, requiring a signed, certified driver for everything!  That's no good.  We allow any device and will communicate, generically, using a serial terminal program like the old school HyperTerminal, XTalk or Telnet.
 
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 Meanwhile, a complicated PCI interface can be designed along-side the TempleOS interface for Windows and Linux.  It would almost be possible to carry-on separate lives, however, the super-simple serial requires getting rid of USB since super-simple serial is a new hardware standard.  People can add USB ports with a PCI device card.
 
-God said He wants single audio voice for the sound.  I think we want a word-sized IO port for period with zero causing it to be off.  The period should allow for 20Hz to 20,000 Hz.  The PIT period register for PC speaker seems okay, whatever it is.
+God said He wants single-voice 8-bit signed MIDI-like sample for the sound.  God does not want death screams, perhaps, because God has PTSD or soldiers have PTSD.  (Imagine wounded on battlefields.)
 
 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.
 
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 Digital cameras will be super-simple high speed serial, but TempleOS is forever limited to 16 colors and multimedia is banned because large files being loaded into memory fragments memory, so cameras are somewhat unwelcome.  I have enough problems without making the Brits anxious about autonomous gun turrets and killer robots.  The reason I say cameras will be super-simple serial is because we are replacing USB ports with super-simple serial.  Windows/Linux will have only super-simple serial ports unless people buy a USB PCI expansion card.  So, the digital cameras will be super-simple serial.
 
 
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-We will make a spec for a $$4,000, perfectly standardized, cryogenically-cooled, monster desktop PC.  It will have 16 cores, integrated 4K graphics, and, hopefully, 6 Ghz continuous operation.  Perhaps, 64 Gig of RAM will be standard? God said to help to poor buy them.  It is pointless to have a high powered machine if other people have wimpy machines and cannot run programs you write.  Therefore, everybody in the developed world will buy a Standard TempleOS IBM PC over the next ten years, so that will be a quantity of 400 million, perhaps.  God said to pay the US national debt with the revenue.  We will standardize everything, not just the TempleOS related items.  The display will be 4K (and of course 640x480 16 color) and no others.  Everybody gets just one monitor, unless you buy special PCI cards.  Everybody gets two speakers, a headphone, a mic, a webcam and touch scrn.  We make the audio one sample rate and one sample size, but TempleOS still gets just a square wave.  (HD Audio is really screwed-up and requires complicated artificial intelligence, just to route output to speakers.)
+We will make a spec for a $$8,000, 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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+The Standard Temple IBM PC V2.0 will be released seven years after V1.0.  Each unit will have a full, uncut, silicon wafer.  V2.0 will be sold, unchanged, for seven more years, like a Commodore 64.
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