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< a name = "l1" > < / a > < span class = cF5 > RedSea Reliability< / span > < span class = cF0 >
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< a name = "l3" > < / a > ZealOS is like the 1040EZ tax form compared to the full 1040 form. Obviously, it is simpler. If you allow mission creep,
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< a name = "l4" > < / a > pretty soon the 1040EZ looks just like the 1040 and the messed-up 1040EZ has no purpose.
< a name = "l5" > < / a >
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< a name = "l6" > < / a > The Commodore 64 had a file system that was simple enough for peers in Terry's generation to enjoy the thrill of knowing
< a name = "l7" > < / a > exactly what is going on at the hardware level and writing fun projects to access it.
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< a name = "l8" > < / a >
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< a name = "l9" > < / a > The primary design criteria is simplicity. If it is simple enough for only 100,000 people to learn, lets try to make it
< a name = "l10" > < / a > simpler so that 1 million can learn it.
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< a name = "l12" > < / a > Obviously, we don't do bad block tables, or redundant FATs.
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< a name = "l14" > < / a > We use the simplest possible technique, a contiguous-file-only allocation bitmap, not < / span > < a href = "https://zeal-operating-system.github.io/ZealOS/Doc/BlkChain.DD.html#l1" > < span class = cF4 > Block Chains< / span > < / a > < span class = cF0 > or FAT tables.
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< a name = "l16" > < / a > You can be a good toy or you can be a good professional tool, but not both. ZealOS's file manager will start too slowly once
< a name = "l17" > < / a > a few thousand files exist because the file manager makes a list of all files on start-up.
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< a name = "l19" > < / a > Do not have more than a few thousand files or the file manager will not function.
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< a name = "l21" > < / a > You are encouraged to keep your entire drive limited to, maybe, 100 Meg of files because you are suppoosed to operate as a
< a name = "l22" > < / a > kayak instead of a Titanic. If you do this, backing-up will be only a minute or so and you should do it at least once a day.
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< a name = "l24" > < / a > Third party software should be run from ISO files or CD/DVDs directly, without installing to hard drive.
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< a name = "l26" > < / a > Multimedia graphics and sound is, basically, forbidden. If you ignore this, all hell will break loose because memory will
< a name = "l27" > < / a > fragment with large files and the original vision of kayak hard-drive back-ups won't work.
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< a name = "l30" > < / a > * " Commodore 64" is a trademark owned by Polabe Holding NV.
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