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Behind Menuet, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly

Posted by Soulskill on from the keep-it-simple dept.

angry tapir writes "MenuetOS is an operating system written entirely in assembly language. As a result it's extremely quick and compact (it can even fit on a floppy disk, despite having a GUI). It can run Quake. Two of the developers behind MenuetOS took time out to talk about what inspired them to undertake the daunting task of writing the operating system, the current state of Menuet and future plans for it."

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  1. Yes! by warrax_666 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think you're right! Now, what might one call such a tool? A... "compiler" maybe?

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  2. Re:That's just dumb. And kinda cool. by DiegoBravo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Knuth doesn't mention assembly.

  3. Re:It's not FOSS? by DigitalLogic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Thanks for that information. :-) I did not know this existed, now I am extremely interested.

  4. Re:Stupid license. No thanks. by JasterBobaMereel · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What's the difference between Linux and Minix?

    1 Linux is monolithic, Minix is a Microkernel system

    2 Minix up until recently had a restrictive licence ... it almost exclusively a teaching system only, and is not widely used even though it is *very* well documented and widely studied

        Linux has always had a free open licence, and even though is arguably an intrinsically less stable system than Minix, is younger, it has done rather well mostly due to it's licence ....

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