Menuet

:This is an article about the operating system. Menuet is also an alternative spelling for the minuet, a dance.

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Operating system - Minuet - Dance

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Menuet (also called MenuetOS or MeOS) is a hobby OS for IBM PC compatible computers originally conceived by Ville Mikael Turjanmaa and released under the GPL. Now the project lies in the hands of Jarek Pelczar. It is notable for fitting on a single floppy disk due to it being written in FASM assembly language, although some simple higher level languages are available for development. The current release includes a GUI, a WAV player, a tiny editor, an assembler, a simple TCP/IP stack, and some games. The source code for several programs is included on the diskette, and the kernel source as well as source for almost every application can be downloaded from the Menuet website.

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Hobby OS - IBM PC compatible - Ville Mikael Turjanmaa - GPL - Jarek Pelczar - Floppy disk - FASM - Assembly language - GUI - WAV - Assembler - TCP/IP

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MenuetOS is a useful tool to learn how a simple OS is constructed and to do various experiments. The applications can be programmed in assembly language, which is fairly easy because of the IA-32 environment which allows parameters to be passed to the kernel functions in the registers. The kernel is a monolithic pre-emptive, real-time kernel and already includes video drivers.

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IA-32 - Kernel

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