[HN Gopher] MenuetOS ___________________________________________________________________ MenuetOS Author : LorenDB Score : 54 points Date : 2023-09-14 20:45 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (menuetos.net) (TXT) w3m dump (menuetos.net) | CodeWriter23 wrote: | IJS before all those "extra layers" in operating systems we used | to do stuff like escalate privilege to admin using POKE in BASIC. | (OS: Oasis, later 'c/is' a Z80 multiuser os from the mid-80s) | mixmastamyk wrote: | This was so small back in the day (one floppy I believe), that I | proposed it for firmware or boot manager before EFI became | ubiquitous or coreboot came along. | | Wonder how that would have played out. | sitzkrieg wrote: | i had similar thoughts, and in modern times "just enough for | containers" would be the business i guess. | | baremetal os might be it the one tho | | https://github.com/ownmac/BareMetal-OS | atan2 wrote: | The first time I read about Menuet OS was on Dr.Dobbs a long time | ago. | squarefoot wrote: | I gave it a try many years ago and its speed was jawdropping. Too | bad that a port to ARM would require a complete rewrite; those | cheaper lower end *Pi-like embedded boards seem just the perfect | platforms to take advantage of such a small and fast OS. | velcrovan wrote: | What are boot times like? | | I see a lot of text-editing environments geared towards | "distraction-free, focused editing" but not a lot of innovation | on an OS focused on the same experience. I would like to see such | a "writing OS" that boots to a text editor in less than a second. | Maybe this OS is a candidate? | mike_hock wrote: | Faster than you can say "what are boot times like" from what I | remember. | | But it's not a practically usable OS, it's more like a study in | how far you can get with pure assembly. Though if a text editor | is really all you want, it might be good enough. | mdp2021 wrote: | It was said to boot in 5s twenty years ago... | | The hardware compatibility list shows a promising number of | machines ( http://www.menuetos.net/hwc.txt ). If you have a | spare one, you could try and report. There is a chance that you | will achieve a very fast boot time. | | -- | | AROS (Amiga) could reboot in ~7s, ~15yrs ago. And you can do | more than you can with MenuetOS. Again, today you will probably | break that record. | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yNIuNnBrWg | | Edit: | | You can see here a recent AROS booting in 3s (it is not clear | if it is bare metal though): | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s_TfmF-_iE | xyproto wrote: | It's such a pity that the 32bit version is open source and the | 64-bit version proprietary. | | The open source alternative is KolibriOS. | cylinder714 wrote: | My understanding is that Kolibri is a hostile fork of Menuet, | and that Menuet's author closed it in retaliation. | whalesalad wrote: | This was epic! I used to bring this to school on a floppy and was | absolutely shocked at the quality of the experience after | booting. It's a pretty full featured desktop environment. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-09-14 23:00 UTC)