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Entire OS... written in assembly. Menuet OS is here.
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 10:49 am
by complacent
Slashdot article linky.
Project page
Interview with the creators here.
Even if it is one of the craziest things I've ever heard, it is a monumentally cool achievement.
Re: Entire OS... written in assembly. Menuet OS is here.
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:40 am
by Sabre
I've always thought this was a great idea. The problem is in the monumental task to write drivers and such. Looks like these guys tried it and succeeded!
BTW, for the techies (90% of us, lol) here's the gritty details:
monolithic preemptive, real-time kernel, including video drivers, all written in FASM assembly language, for 64-bit and 32-bit x86 architecture computers
I grabbed the images and such from
http://www.menuetos.net/ and will play with it a little today.
Re: Entire OS... written in assembly. Menuet OS is here.
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:03 pm
by ElZorro
I'll try and load it up on virtualbox
