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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Just over a year to do it in Asm? I wonder how long it would have taken to write in C ?! Perhaps the project is just an indictment of current compiler technology: how about a critique on this aspect - what's wrong? Maybe someone should do a C port, then it can be portable to other architectures, too. I have this idea for a really fast computer, I'm going to build it out of a pile of transistors ... ;-)