Re: 64 bit Menuet 0.59 released

Betov wrote:
Frank Kotler <fbkotler@xxxxxxxxxxx> écrivait news:nxWEh.1924$JB2.150
@trnddc07:


Cool! Can you clarify the licensing situation? looks to me like

Menuet32

is GPL, but Menuet64 is "all rights reserved". Is that correct?



I was just going to ask the very same question.

:(

Great minds run in the same channels - for certain values of "great". :)

???!!!... So said... 25 years too late, anyway...

Surely the 64-bit version isn't 25 years too late! I think I agree with you that 64-bit is mostly a "marketing thing" (on "desktop" machines), but I think it's probably "coming" anyway.

:( Have fun! :( :( :(

I still haven't transplanted the floppy-drive from my old dead K6 to my current machine. I've never done it, but I understand it's fairly simple to boot from CD with "floppy emulation". (gotta swap CD drives, too, one of these days) Anyone had experience with "USB sticks" as an "OS development" medium? Seems to me that might work out well. Or maybe we need to do too much to access 'em from boot? This new machine has got USB (? and firewire?) connectors on the front of it - I've never plugged anything into 'em...

I'm surprised you're not more "into" an all-asm OS - any OS - Linux86, ReactOS86, something! Writing apps in asm is all well and good, but until the "under the hood" stuff is lean and mean, we *really* aren't accomplishing much. (heresy, but it's true, IMHO)

MenuetOS, when I looked at it, impressed me by fitting on a floppy (an "obsolete" criterion, I guess) and having a good start at "basic functionallity" - a GUI, a development environment (Fasm), and the ability to get online. Actually, it wouldn't support my ethernet card, but it purported to go online with a number of supported cards. Once we can go online, we can "flesh out" the OS at leisure. As I recall, it's a little short on apps - perfect OS for folks who think writing apps is the only "serious" programming! :)

I really don't mean to single out Menuet - there are a number of interesting OSen out there. It's just one I've tried, and liked, as far as it went. When I look at the code (only a tiny bit), I think "this isn't so great after all", but then I think "look how much this could be improved!"

As you've pointed out, I haven't written anything, so I have no right to complain... but sometimes I still do...

Best,
Frank
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