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 want to stand up and applaud the effort of the author of MenuetOS. I have been dreaming of just such a project for many years.
Looking at the messages from some of the others here I'm astonished. How can anyone bitch and complain about the lack of "C" (Better graded as F-) when you can put an entire OS, Assembler, Editor and misc files and source on a floppy with space to spare? And how about that faster to develop in C when this project was done by ONE GUY in a year and a half??? Well it's clear they can say anything they want but to me it just proves that C / F- is a "religion."
Bravo MenuetOS! I'm looking forward to the inclusion of a real file system not just FAT32 & DOS.