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+===================================
+
+# 0: General Information
+
+===================================
+
+- ABI and Format: PEF/PE32+.
+- Kernel architecture: Portable hybrid Kernel.
+- Language: C++/(Assembly (AMD64, X64000, X86S, ARM64, POWER, RISCV))
+
+===================================
+
+# 1: The Kernel
+
+===================================
+
+- Drive/Device Abstraction.
+- SMP, Preemptive Multi Threading.
+- Separation of Files/Devices.
+- Networking.
+- Hardware Abstraction Layer.
+- Native Filesystem support (NeFS, FAT32 and ffs2).
+- Program Loaders interfaces.
+- TLS (Thread Local Storage) support.
+- BinaryMutex, Locks, Timers.
+- Canary mechanisms.
+- Dynamic Sys.
+- Cross Platform.
+- Permission Selectors.
+
+===================================
+
+# 2: The Filesystem
+
+===================================
+
+- Catalog object with associated forks.
+- Large storage support.
+- Long file names.
+- UNIX path style.
+
+==================================
+
+# 3: Common naming conventions:
+
+==================================
+
+- Kernel -> ke_init_x
+- RunTime -> rt_copy_mem
+- Hal -> hal_foo_bar
+- Class methods -> Class::FooBar
+
+===================================
+
+# 4: The BootZ
+
+===================================
+
+- Capable of booting from a network drive.
+- Loads a PE file which is the Kernel.
+- Sanity checks, based on the number of sections.
+- Handover compliant.
+- Does check for a valid partition (useful in the case of recovering)