Decisions Making TinkerOS Simple

Everybody is obsessed, Jedi mind-tricked, by the notion that when you scale-up, 
it doesn't get bad, it gets worse.  They automatically think things are going to 
get bigger.  Guess what happens when you scale down?  It doesn't get good, it 
gets better!

TinkerOS is a motorcycle -- if you lean-over too far, a motorcycle will crash.  
Don't do that!  There are no side air bags on a motorcycle.  DOS and C64 had no 
memory protections and ran in ring-0, with no security.  This saves an order of 
magnitude complexity.

* Everything runs in kernel, ring 0, mode.

* One memory map for all tasks on all cores with virtual addresses set equ to 
physical, just as though paging is not used.

* One platform -- x86_64 PC's, no 32-bit support.

* Least (greatest) common denominator hardware support.  Mostly, one driver for 
each device class.  I can't be in the business of different drivers.  
Compatibility is the greatest challenge for PC operating systems.  Disk code 
does not use interrupts, avoiding compatibility risks.  PS/2 keyboard/mouse is 
used instead of USB, also more compatible.

* See also TempleOS Strategy