Re:MenuetOS
by squarefoot on Thursday September 14, 2023 @06:26PM
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I gave it a try many years ago and its speed was jawdropping. Too bad that a port to ARM would require a complete rewrite; those cheaper lower end *Pi-like embedded boards seem just the perfect platforms to take advantage of such a small and fast OS.
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If I'm not mistaken, both are written in FASM (Flat Assembler). And unfortunately FASM won't run in recent MacOSes because it's a 32-bit app. No problem with Windows/Linux, though.
You can run 32-bit Windows tools in macOS with Wine.
I thought that Wine only works up to macOS 10.14
I'm on Monterey 12.6.9, and confirm can run the latest FASM.
Current problem is how to configure the include path so I can build programs.
On Windows it's very easy: check "Environment Variables", create an "INCLUDE" variable (if not exist), then set "C:\FASM\INCLUDE", for example.
For ARM32, RISC OS is probably the closest to the value proposition offered by Menuet, albeit with a decent amount of high level code and a lot more support from developers for applications, languages, and games.