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MenuetOS Debuts

Posted by michael on from the next-linus dept.

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!"

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  1. Assembler? Bah! by Sagarian · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

  2. Re:what's left? by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny

    Write it in VBScript. You can create the first OS that can be installed and redistributed by clicking an e-mail attachment.

  3. An OS from Finland? by robinjo · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.