Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 5th Sep 2001 21:05 UTC
Today we are hosting an interview with Ville Turjanmaa, the creator of the Menuet Operating System. Menuet is a new, 32-bit OS, it fits to a single floppy (along with 10 or so more applications that come as standard with the OS). It features protection for the memory and code, it has a GUI running at 16,7 million colors, sound at 44.1 khz stereo, easy of use and easy low level API. And the most important and notable feature? The whole OS was written in 100%, pure 32-bit x86 assembly code.
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I read the comments about MenuetOS on slashdot a few weeks go, and its nice to see finally a site where ppl applaud asm coders. Assembly is an art, someone that can master this art should NEVER be put down. I have yet to try menuetos, as i have no available computer with vesa support and am too lazy to reboot this machine. I have read alot about MenuetOS, and i personally applaud its creator, for doing so much with assembly. For all you ASM loving OS followers, you should keep your eyes peeled for Unununium. Within a few weeks, possibly up to a month or so from now, we (yes we, i work on it also) are gonna release 0.2a of the FRuSTRaTiON distro of it. It will feature a damned nice shell, ext2fs support, VGA driver, serial driver, ps2 driver, (we used to have SB16 support, dunno what happened to it), ramdisk support, our own ramdisk fs, a devfs, and whole lot more. All coded in x86 Assembly, this os not only fits on a disk, it will require less than 50kb on that disk (no, thats no typo, you read right, 50kb). We dont have a GUI just yet, but its in the works (a GUI is hard to code ya know). http://uuu.sf.net for those that want to see what we have to offer.