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Joined: Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:43 pm Posts: 250 Location: Beavercreek/Cincinnati 
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 To Adam, who wanted an OS entirely in ASM...If you haven't looked at http://www.menuetos.net/, it's been around awhile, and it's pretty impressive.
From the website (emphasis mine): Quote: MenuetOS is an Operating System in development for the PC written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly language, and released under the License. It supports 32/64 bit x86 assembly programming for smaller, faster and less resource hungry applications. .... Features - Pre-emptive multitasking with 1000hz scheduler, multithreading, ring-3 protection - Responsive GUI with resolutions up to 1280x1024, 16 million colours - Free-form, transparent and skinnable application windows, drag'n drop - IDE: Editor/Macro Assembler for applications - TCP/IP stack with Loopback & Ethernet drivers - Email/ftp/http/chess clients and ftp/mp3/http servers - Hard real-time data fetch - Fits on a single floppy I'd imagine it's a bit difficult to program for, and completely unportable short of a line-by-line recode, but it's demonstrates what you can do when you hack away 10 or 11 layers. Of course, on the hardware that it can't be ported to, there's a good chance that it would run faster on emulation than whatever native OS is available. |
| Fri May 09, 2008 11:09 am |
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Winner  Joined: Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:15 am Posts: 392 Location: Infinite Reality
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Re: To Adam, who wanted an OS entirely in ASM... I remember trying this out a few years ago... they had a whole system with a gui and everything on a floppy disk.
looks like they've made a few improvements since then. I recall being absolutely astounded at the speed. edit: I found my menuet disk. it's version .17 so it's really out of date  |
| Sat May 10, 2008 10:46 pm |
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LaRC Regular  Joined: Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:40 pm Posts: 65 Location: At the helm
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Re: To Adam, who wanted an OS entirely in ASM... This is intense.
_________________ The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. ~Linus Torvalds |
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