[HN Gopher] MenuetOS: An entire operating system in x86_64 assembly
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       MenuetOS: An entire operating system in x86_64 assembly
        
       Author : gorenb
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2023-10-29 16:15 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.menuetos.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.menuetos.net)
        
       | sparcpile wrote:
       | covered quite a few times over the years
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37514601 (2023)
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31290789 (2022)
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988778 (2021)
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9595507 (2015)
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1494999 (2010)
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776381 (2009)
        
         | frozenport wrote:
         | mom said its my turn to repost it!
        
       | 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
       | 2009 might be earliest HN commentary, but MenuetOS dates back to
       | at least 2005 according to the Internet Archive.
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       | https://web.archive.org/web/20051215234548if_/http://www.co....
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       | https://web.archive.org/web/20051030022655if_/http://www.men...
        
       | CyberDildonics wrote:
       | This is at least 24 years old.
        
         | taylorportman wrote:
         | Menuet & Kolibri are still actively maintained though.
        
         | endgame wrote:
         | The news page indicates a new release on 2023-10-26, which is
         | impressive diligence.
        
       | josephcsible wrote:
       | Why did they go closed-source for the 64-bit version?
        
         | haolez wrote:
         | They must have at least one customer where this makes sense.
        
         | jiripospisil wrote:
         | > Menuet64 is closed source because M32 was forked and new
         | copyrights just slapped at the beginning of practically all
         | 32bit source files (multitasking, drivers, GUI, networking..)
         | without any permission. You can take a guess about the country
         | in question.
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         | https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=22194
        
           | weikju wrote:
           | > You can take a guess about the country in question.
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           | For the curious, it appears to have been done by people in
           | Russia (state-sponsored or not is unclear)
        
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