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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<p>I was curious if this could be done entirely in assembly. I've seen no assembly written graphical multitasking OSes for x86 processors before Menuet. So it was quite a challenge.</p> <p>It was done 10+ years ago. GEOS is a pre-emptive multi-tasking, multi-threaded OS with a GUI, and was written entirely in 80x86 assembly. Some libraries and applications have since been written in C, but the OS itself is 100% assembly.</p> <p>Still, this is a pretty amazing undertaking.</p>