
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.
Very impressive. Given that CPUs are so slow these days, and the over-hyping of the usefulness of harddisks, it's about time we had such an OS. All those C++ and Java developers out there must be really silly not to see the benefits of writing everything in assembly. Oh wait... I really meant to say it's the most stupid project I've every heard of! Get a life!!!