Out with the old, in with the less

It is forever limited to 100,000 lines.

The vision is a C64 ROM.

DOS and C64 had no protection and no problems.

There are no buffer overflow check in templeos. It will allow massive buffers until it crashes by running out of memory. Keeps it simple and beautiful. I hate arbitrary buffer size limits.

I want whole file reads and write exclusively. Compression is almost always used and that requires whole files. Text files can have binary graphics -- you cannot grow a file if binary graphics are on the end.

The code is beautiful. I always break compatibility to keep it perfect.

It is limited to 100,000 lines. The file util flags are okay.

You must stop assuming everything grows in size. It is done and it is a fixed size.

Pokemon reference, Spolsky link, XKCD link, flowery metaphors, random paragraph splicing, anagram soup, endless linkouts that are either entirely critical to what he's trying to say or meaningless footnotes that can be ignored.

It would take hours to read this post and the linked material and fully understand it. And for what point?

There's so much wisdom in the BSD crowd trying to leak out -- but so many of them come off as nuts in their writing. His second sentence: "... simplicity or security or whatever it is that OpenBSD is all about."

Well, why don't you figure that out? Define that for me and then the rest of the post might make sense. This type of writing respects neither the project nor the reader.