A nice cogent summary of the goals of the project:
"The main reason TempleOS is simple and beautiful is because it's ring-0-only and
identity-mapped. Linux wants to be a secure, multi-user mainframe. That's the
vision for Linux. That's why it has file permissions. The vision for TempleOS
is a modern, 64-bit Commodore 64. The C64 was a home computer mostly used for
games. It trained my generation how to program. It was simple, open and
hackable. It was not networked. The games were not multimedia works of art,
but generated programmatically with innocent, programmer (non-artist) quality
graphics. It was simple and unsecure. If you don't have malware and you don't
have bugs, protection just slows things down and makes the code complicated."
"The main reason TempleOS is simple and beautiful is because it's ring-0-only and identity-mapped. Linux wants to be a secure, multi-user mainframe. That's the vision for Linux. That's why it has file permissions. The vision for TempleOS is a modern, 64-bit Commodore 64. The C64 was a home computer mostly used for games. It trained my generation how to program. It was simple, open and hackable. It was not networked. The games were not multimedia works of art, but generated programmatically with innocent, programmer (non-artist) quality graphics. It was simple and unsecure. If you don't have malware and you don't have bugs, protection just slows things down and makes the code complicated."