[HN Gopher] MenuetOS: An entire operating system in x86_64 assembly ___________________________________________________________________ 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 | | 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) | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1494999 (2010) | | 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. | | https://web.archive.org/web/20051215234548if_/http://www.co.... | | 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. | | https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=22194 | weikju wrote: | > You can take a guess about the country in question. | | For the curious, it appears to have been done by people in | Russia (state-sponsored or not is unclear) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-10-29 23:00 UTC)