Today Miray Software officially introduced the version 0.93 of the operating system µnOS. The company also announced a new version of the underlying realtime microkernel, which will be available as a stand-alone product in the future. Read more for the rest of the press release and download locations of this interesting graphical OS.The slim and widely scalable client/server operating system µnOS is based on a very small realtime microkernel. The version 0.93 has been improved in many aspects. Besides others, it provides a smaller microkernel of only 70 KB, extended hardware support, support of up to 4 GB of RAM, a high level of stability and dynamic device drivers. Furthermore, new applications have been added to µnOS 0.93 like a file browser, a memory guard, a shutdown manager and a display manager.
As usual with previous versions of µnOS, there is again a free demo version of µnOS 0.93 available for download. This demo version contains a graphical user interface and numerous demo applications. As it fits just on a 1.44 MB floppy, it’s not necessary to make any changes to the harddisk.
The µnOS 0.93 demo is not only available as disk image for creating a bootdisk but also as ISO image for creating a bootable CD-ROM. Further, there is the possibility of purchasing a bootable CD-ROM from miray with the µnOS 0.93 demo version on it.
The version 0.93 of µnOS is based on the original microkernel. Based on this microkernel, miray developed a fundamentally improved successor during the recent months. This new realtime microkernel, named “Sphere 2.0”, will be officially presented by miray within the next weeks. The new Sphere 2.0 microkernel is significantly smaller, faster and more powerful. Independent from µnOS it will also be available as a stand-alone realtime microkernel. In the middle of 2002, Sphere 2.0 will also support more processors. Currently Sphere 2.0 runs on all Intel-IA32- and AMD-Elan-processors.
Miray Software Releases version 0.93 of µnOS
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Looks like GeOS!
I burned the iso to a cd..booted it from the cd then gave me the Zen-like message: “Invalid Floppy. Cannot boot with such device installed”
nice little OS, i think it has potential. only wish the CLI would have been less DOS-like and more UNIX-like… DOS is dead, get over it Miray!
Free-Dos…*cough*
…Seal 2.0…*cough*…
speak for yourself…*cough*…
Has Seal really gotten to the point where you can say it is comparable to the screenshots on the µnOS site? I tried Seal about 4 months ago and was uninspired by the experience.
Seems to be a problem with floppy emulation when booting from cd. Perhaps try to make a bootdisk (floppy) instead. It should work then.
it works on accer tm340T
Anyone get this working in Bochs? Tried it out in 1.4 under Win2k with not much luck… got to the fourth bar in the progres-bar booting sequence, and just sticks, no more progress, but not a crash.
This seems to be a problem with the BIOS-emulation of bochs. I had the exactly same behaviour. According to miray, at this point the loader tries to load someting to high memory via int 0x15, fct. 0x87.