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wraggster
August 19th, 2009, 18:03
MenuetOS is an operating system written entirely in assembly language. As a result it's extremely quick and compact (it can even fit on a floppy disk, despite having a GUI). It can run Quake. Two of the developers behind MenuetOS took time out to talk about what inspired them to undertake the daunting task of writing the operating system, the current state of Menuet and future plans for it

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/08/19/1259210/Behind-Menuet-an-OS-Written-Entirely-In-Assembly