water cooler :: Really interesting OS

It's called MenuetOS.

Don't know if any of you guys have heard about it already, but this is probably one of the nicest OSs I've ever seen. It's an all new idea, not based on Unix or Linux or any of the already existing OSs out there. It's completely programmed in ASM assembly language. It's also fully contained in a 1.44MB floppy (which it only actually uses 946KB) that loads in RAM Disk on boot. None of the files are compressed, which means it loads up real fast (took my 1.8Mhz less than 30 seconds to fully load it). The best part is that it is a GUI system.

wow...that's really impressive. Thing I don't like is the "floppy" part. Floppies suck and have been getting less dependable as time progresses. I think the manufacturers of floppies are attempting to make people who use them sick of having to constantly replace them, and move on to something more dependable.

Anyway, I'm still downloading this thing =o) A graphical OS on a floppy is too amazing to ignore.

EDIT: downloaded and booted into this system. It was fairly easy to load, even for a drunk guy. Pretty impressive setup in 1mb...a little buggy, but still interesting. Personally I'd go for a text/curses-based linux distro on a floppy, for the larger number of tools available, but for someone who doesn't like console this would be good.

Watch out if you are using Windows/IE when you visit their site as I was hit several times with virus/adware attacks when clicking on a "FAQ" link.

Gotta love Firefox.

Doubly so when running MSWindows.

There's also the old QNX demo disk - damn impressive.

They don't support it any more but it's still out there, like at:
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/qnx/demodisk/

And a good little write up of making the disk is at:
http://www.pcquest.com/content/windows/101030102.asp

They have a network version and a modem version.

Slowly downloading it as I type.

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