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MenuetOS Debuts
Eugenia Loli-Queru writes: "OSNews is hosting an interview with Ville Turjanmaa, the creator of the Menuet Operating System. Menuet is a new, 32-bit OS under the GPL and 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 (except with 3Dfx Voodoo cards), sound at 44.1 khz stereo etc. And the most important and notable feature? The whole OS was written in 100%, pure 32-bit x86 assembly code!"
An operating system in assembler? Bah! Such high level languages are tools for the weak, macros be damned! You know what I have to say about that? Reminds me of an old joke by Alan Turing : 11100101010100100111010100101010010100101001111 ? 10011010100111011100001 !!! HA!
x86 assembly? Now that's what I call portability!
...does that mean it'll be a pain in the ass to fix "LENGHT" to "LENGTH" in the editor picture on the website?
but seriously, this is pretty sweet. i'm going to load it up at work tomorrow.
I'll stick with Penix, thanks.
The Penix system uses interpreted BASIC for "Ease of Modification". Good move in my book. BASIC programmers are plentiful.
Wasting your time since 1997.
I've got an old 14" monitor you can plug into. That'll give you anti-aliased fonts, line-art, bitmaps, the whole shebang!
...wearing a skin-tight topless leather jumpsuit, with cutaway buttocks and transparent crotch panel.
I just upgraded my entire company to this OS and we are blazing ahead into the early 90's. Some of my 'less-educated' users are complaining about the lack of support for StarOffice but I'm assuring them that it will come with time. In the meantime I'm working on a Lynx port. I never knew I could get 10% (!!!) improvement on my existing Pentium II 1 Ghz machines!
Of course it doesn't translate to ASCII. Alan Turing died in 1954 and ASCII was created in 1963.
The joke is probably a Turing machine tape anyway. We don't know how to interpret the symbols without the state machine specification to give it context. Many jokes are not funny out of context.
Write it in VBScript. You can create the first OS that can be installed and redistributed by clicking an e-mail attachment.
An OS from Finland? Does this come from the frozen small hellhole next to North Pole? Do they even have electricity there? World domination? Yeah right. Won't happen in a million years!
...said people 10 years ago and went on with their life. Boy, were they wrong.
Never underestimate an OS that comes from Finland.
I really don't see what this OS offers that Linux doesn't have.
A nice standard desktop?
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
All I can say is, that's a pretty fucking hardcore patch. Even my keyboard is anti-aliased now.
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