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@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ $FG,5$$WW,1$$TX+CX,"ZealOS Charter"$$FG$
* $FG,4$We don't think twice about breaking compatibility. $FG$ We do not put any hooks for future changes. "Perfect" means we always act as though it is final, for all time. Microsoft allowed the $FG,2$$TX,"Windows BMP",HTML="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file"$$FG$ file format to adapt to the future and it became grotesque.
* Low line count and code complexity is the highest good, so it is easy to learn the whole thing. Users should see the light at the end of the tunnel.
* Low line count and low code complexity is the highest good, so it is easy to learn the whole thing. Users should see the light at the end of the tunnel.
* There is a limit of 100,000 lines of code for all time, not including applications and demos. Currently, there are $TX,"98,640",D="DD_ZEALOS_LOC"$ lines of code. $FG,4$3rd party libraries are banned from being required$FG$ because they circumvent the intent of this limit. The vision is a Commodore 64 ROM -- a fixed core API that is the only dependency of applications. Dependency on components and libraries creates a hell that is no longer blissful.
* There is a limit of 100,000 lines of code for all time, not including applications and demos. Currently, there are $TX,"98,641",D="DD_ZEALOS_LOC"$ lines of code. $FG,4$3rd party libraries are banned from being required$FG$ because they circumvent the intent of this limit. The vision is a Commodore 64 ROM -- a fixed core API that is the only dependency of applications. Dependency on components and libraries creates a hell that is no longer blissful.
* The primary metric for resolving all ZealOS code governance issues is how fast the compiler compiles itself and the kernel with $LK,"BootHDIns",A="MN:BootHDIns"$(). The secondary metric is how understandable the code is. The $LK,"ZealC",A="FI:::/Doc/ZealC.DD"$ language should be changed to optimize these metrics, as Terry Davis did when he changed type casting from prefix to $LK+PU,"postfix",A="FF:::/Doc/ZealC.DD,postfix"$.
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* It is for one platform -- $FG,4$$TX,"x86_64",HTML="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd64#AMD64"$$FG$ desktop PC compatibles, more like super-computers than battery efficient wimpy mobiles.
* One driver for each class of device. The only exception is networking. With divergent device capabilities, it is a nightmare for user applications and what is gained?
* One driver for each class of device. The only exceptions are networking, sound, and keyboard/mouse. With divergent device capabilities, it is a nightmare for user applications and what is gained?
* $FG,2$Ring-0-only$FG$. Everything runs in kernel mode, including user applications.
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* $FG,2$Single-address-map$FG$ as though paging is not used. Long mode requires paging, however, so the nearest thing is keeping all memory $FG,2$identity-mapped$FG$.
* $FG,2$Free$FG$ and $FG,2$public domain$FG$ operating system code. Bootloaders of other open-source licenses (Grub, Limine, etc) are permitted as long as the Public Domain ZealOS HDD/DVD Bootloaders written in ZealC are always kept functional, always offered as a bootloader option during BIOS-mode install, and always included in Distro ISOs.
* $FG,2$Free$FG$ and $FG,2$public domain$FG$ operating system code. Bootloaders of other open-source licenses (Grub, Limine, etc) are permitted. The Public Domain ZealOS HDD/DVD Bootloaders written in ZealC must always be kept functional, must always be offered as a bootloader option during BIOS-mode install, and must always be included in Distro ISOs.
* $FG,2$100% open source$FG$ operating system code with all source included. Bootloaders are excluded from this requirement.

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$TR,"How come it is public domain, not GPL?"$
$ID,2$$FG,2$Terry A. Davis$FG$, wrote all of TempleOS over a span of $FG,2$$TX,"15.0",D="DD_TEMPLEOS_AGE"$$FG$ years (full-time). ZealOS, written over a span of $FG,2$$TX,"3.1",D="DD_ZEALOS_AGE"$$FG$ years (part-time), is a fork of TempleOS. It can run on bare metal 64-bit PC's from about 2007-2019 with no layering, libraries, tools, modules or anything from other sources. Otherwise, you run it in a virtual machine, like $FG,2$VMware$FG$, $FG,2$QEMU$FG$ or $FG,2$VirtualBox$FG$. It is independent and can stand alone. 100% of the public-domain operating system source code is included on all distros, from the kernel to the compiler to the applications, including public-domain BIOS-mode boot loaders! See $LK,"::/Doc/Credits.DD"$.
$ID,-2$$TR,"Shouldn't it be GNU/ZealOS?"$
$ID,2$ZealOS executes 100% public-domain operating system code. Public-domain boot-loaders were even written, so we do not require Grub. Optional UEFI-compatible ZealOS distro builds can be made using Limine, a BSD-2 licensed bootloader, but this is not required for BIOS-mode. See $LK,"::/Doc/Credits.DD"$.
$ID,2$ZealOS executes 100% public-domain operating system code. Public-domain boot-loaders were even written, so we do not require Grub. Optional UEFI-compatible ZealOS distro builds can be made using Limine, a BSD-2 licensed bootloader, but this is never required for BIOS-mode. See $LK,"::/Doc/Credits.DD"$.
$ID,-2$$TR,"Don't you use GNU's gcc?"$
$ID,2$ZealOS was written from scratch, starting with $FG,2$TASM$FG$ long ago, launching from real-mode DOS. Now, there is no $FG,2$Linux$FG$ or $FG,2$GNU$FG$ or any other code in ZealOS. Yes, the compiler was written from scratch. See $LK,"::/Doc/Credits.DD"$.
$ID,-2$$TR,"Why do you dual boot?"$