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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>Eugenia, where do you find these things??? As they say in Greece in similar questions: "I found it in the bag with the chips in it"
>doesn't work very well under Communicator 4.78
Yes, I just verified that. The guy who wrote the HTML, uses a TABLE and then uses the FRAMESET tags, which is of course not valid HTML and confuses Netscape. IE6 also has javascript problems with it btw.
I would like to say here that owners of 3Dfx graphics cards will have trouble to get Menuet to work. Menuet only works on 16 million colors, and the 3Dfx VESA is limited, it only provides VESA for 16-bit colors only, not 24 bit. The OS will boot up just fine, it is just that graphics will be icky and therefore the desktop will be unusable. I had to use a PC with a non-3Dfx card to get to Menuet's desktop.
If you are under BeOS and you have trouble creating the bootable diskette, let me know, and I will post instructions how to do so (there are already instructions for Unix and DOS on Ville's web site).