Submitted by “MenuetOS is an operating system in development for the PC written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly language, and released under the License. It supports 32/64 bit x86 assembly programming for smaller, faster and less resource hungry applications. Menuet has no roots within UNIX or the POSIX standards, nor is it based on any particular operating system. The design goal has been to remove the extra layers between different parts of an OS, which normally complicate programming and create bugs.” Version 0.76 of the 64bit version has just been released.
An OS that is actually interesting in design and creation, and not simply Copyleft Unix Variant No. 404.
It’s a bit curious compared to a commercial OS, but this much polish in a package this small is worth more attention.
I remember checking out the earlier screenshots some time ago and I gotta say MenuetOS has jumped forward in leaps and bounds :O It’s starting to look pretty sleek actually
I’m impressed ^^ I think I’ll start following the progress a bit more closely from now on 
Oh, and I gotta say… It’s pretty darn impressive that it’s all assembly :O The author has some darn skillz :3
>>An OS that is actually interesting in design and creation, and not simply Copyleft Unix Variant No. 404.<<
Do you have information about the design?
All I know about this OS it’s that it is coded in assembly which is an implementation technique not a design issue..
So what’s this ‘interesting design’ you’re talking about?
I haven’t been able to find documentation about the design in the website..
Does it really run as fast as “written in assembly” sounds like it should run? I think this little sucker is going to join my OS collection under it’s own VM.
Wow. That’s pretty impressive, I want to follow this project. Looking at the programming API it actually seems kind of sane for assembly.
I gave it a quick try, and one thing it really shows up is the crap performance that you get with most application that you use. The time to boot from floppy Image to usable Internet Browser is 20s. For windows Vista, it is about 4 minutes.
And to have a textured/lit maze demo that runs using a custom renderer on un-accelerated vmware display at >5fps is really a miracle.
Didn’t it used to be called ‘Minuet’ or something like that? And then suddenly all the attention was on SkyOS and you never saw posts about it anymore? Is this the same one? It was really nice and tight back in the day
it was MenuetOS, then the developer moved to 64-bit assembly and more or less abandoned the 32-bit version (which is now, I think, called Kolibri).
32bit Menuet is available for download. The focus is now on 64bit version since most of todays sold computers support 64bit.