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The Ground Up

Chapter 2: First Principles

When everyone is building skyscrapers on top of the same foundation, no one stops to ask if the foundation is made of sand.

In computing, we've inherited decades of "unchallenged" decisions. We reuse kernels designed for hardware that no longer exists. We maintain compatibility with protocols that were obsolete before the turn of the century.

TinyThinkOS is a return to First Principles.

We don't ask, "How can we make this existing driver faster?" We ask, "Why do we need this driver at all?" We challenge the assumption that an OS must be a massive monolith. We challenge the idea that file systems must be hierarchical. We challenge everything.

To create something truly new, you must be willing to burn the blueprints of the old. You must go back to the physics of the machine—the silicon and the electrons—and build a bridge that respects the modern reality of compute.

We are not iterating. We are originating.