Download MenuetOS 0.75

MenuetOS is one of the few homemade operating systems that can be found on the net. Unlike Linux, MenuetOS is not written in the C programming language, but in 32-bit x86 assembly. The latest version of the operating system is numbered 0.75 and has the following release notes:

Menuet has no unix roots and the basic system is meant to be clean asm based structure. Menuet isn’t based in any particular operating system, since the idea has been to remove the extra layers between different parts of software, which complicate programming and create bugs.

0.75

Gateway and PPP support; DNS, Chess etc. clients; Rtl8139 drive

Features

• pre-emptive multitasking, multithreading, ring-3 protection
• graphical UI with 16 M colors up to 1280×1024
• faster programming language than in Win, Linux, ..
• ide: editor/compiler for assembly kernel and applications
• kernel and application sources included (GPL)
• TCP/IP stack with PPP & Ethernet drivers
• http/mp3/email servers, 3D maze
• free-form, skinnable application windows
• hard real time data fetch
• fits in a single floppy !

[break]on this page various examples can be downloaded and can serve as inspiration.