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MenuetOS
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Re: MenuetOS
#2This 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.
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#3It's such a pity that the 32bit version is open source and the 64-bit version proprietary.
The open source alternative is KolibriOS.
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#4IJS 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/os’ a Z80 multiuser os from the mid-80s)
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#5This 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.
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#6The first time I read about Menuet OS was on Dr.Dobbs a long time ago.
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#7What 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?
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#8What 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?
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.
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#9What 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?
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.
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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):
Re: MenuetOS
#10This 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.
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