
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.
As a Computer Science student, one of the things we have over a lot of IT majors is that we have to study assembly. Not a bad thing, as we get into both the breadth and depth of how our computer truly works. This is an inspiration to those who still believe highly that everything could and should be written in assembly, and to those that like higher level programming, here's another reason why all assembly should not be abandoned.