MenuetOS: An entire operating system in x86_64 assembly(menuetos.net) |
MenuetOS: An entire operating system in x86_64 assembly(menuetos.net) |
https://web.archive.org/web/20051215234548if_/http://www.co....
https://web.archive.org/web/20051030022655if_/http://www.men...
Initial release: May 16, 2000; 23 years ago (32-bit)https://web.archive.org/web/20011122052147if_/http://www.ddj...
https://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/toc/dr-dobbs-2000.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37514601 (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31290789 (2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988778 (2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9595507 (2015)
For the curious, it appears to have been done by people in Russia (state-sponsored or not is unclear)
The developer has only made one 32-bit version (0.86) availabe, though. Would be great to have past releases available as well.
EDIT: Apparently the 32-bit versions have not come too far in the last 12+ years -- in 2011 (when the Intel HDA driver was released), version 0.85 of M32 was downloadable: https://web.archive.org/web/20110615210928/http://www.menuet...
I'm learning some assembly (on FreeDOS), so MenuetOS is interesting. Was hoping to test it (+ the HDA audio, for 24-bit playback -- and maybe try to make sense of the audio driver source, for a hobby project) on a Dell Mini 9, which is 32 bit. It's time to move on then, I guess.
Could be just the vehicle someone needed to get into x86 coding on bare metal.
And serves as a nice counterpoint for "optimizing compilers outperform skilled assembly coders". Regardless of whether that's true or not.
QubesOS for example
Menuet is far from being a practical OS. It's a very interesting proof of concept/research project, but its usefulness evaporates almost completely without the source.
Culture shock stemming from a generation gap, I guess.
(Obviously this distinction is not important for most comments here on Hacker News which are just written in passing, but if this was an academical setting you would, presumably and hopefully, get laughed out of the room.)
Also the whole "don't use Wikipedia" thing is idiotic. There's a bunch of tech illiterate teachers who think Wikipedia is full of misinformation, and impress that view on students. So lots of people think Wikipedia is useless, while in reality it's a fantastic source of information and you can easily find the sources of that information.