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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Downloaded a copy, did the dd stuff. dd if=mfloppy.img of=/dev/fd0 worked for me by the way. Rebooted, answered the two questions, and it was working. Only complaint I could find was that the Super Mario game had bugs. There are many good reasons for doing such a thing. The two most important are for the authors to learn and pass on their learnings, and to show it can be done. If TCP/IP can easily be added, and maybe a way to easily push very simple GUI's onto it, then it might be of interest to embedded people using x86 style chips. Or, knock out tcp/ip, a simple web-browser, ssh and an email/news agent, and you've got a nice floppy disk sized OS to deploy on ancient machines.