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 managed to make a Menuet disk. Here's how: (1) Go to the Menuet website and download MSETUP.EXE. (2) Per the website, extract the floppy image from MSETUP.EXE: Run Terminal, go to the directory where you saved MSETUP.EXE, and enter this line: dd if=MSETUP.EXE of=mfloppy.img ibs=1000 obs=1000 skip=20 (3) Put a blank diskette into your floppy drive and enter this line: dd if=mfloppy.img of=/dev/disk/floppy/raw After dd finishes, you can boot from the floppy into Menuet. (One caveat: I managed to see firsthand what the GUI looks like, but after that I couldn't get anything to work. I couldn't move the mouse, and I couldn't make Menuet respond to anything I tried with the keyboard. Still, I could reboot into BeOS, mount the boot floppy, and copy the source code files to my hard drive.)