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It's definitely a very neat project. It kind of reminds me of QNX Neutrino. It also fit on a single floppy disk, and had a GUI, web browser, etc. It's also a Unix-like with a microkernel design.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020205065733/http://www.qnx.co...

But what I really liked about QNX is how amazingly good it looks with just a bit more polish beyond the size of a floppy disk:

http://mobile.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=534

(I don't know the exact size of the OS today, but back in the early 2000's it was still extremely small and looked almost identical to the osnews screenshots. I want to say it was around ~80MB, and came with GCC and a bunch of other goodies.)

I could actually see myself running that instead of a Chromebook or on a server through VNC.

Unfortunately, QNX never really went beyond the embedded world: it's almost exclusively used in car navigation systems and such these days.

Hopefully at some point Menuet will grow as QNX did from its floppy disk days. The tiny tech demos are wonderful, but with a bit more polish they could see real-world production use.

>>byuu+(OP)
QNX is an excellent example of OS design: minimal TCB, efficient, self-healing to a degree, and supports popular runtimes/libraries. You don't need to imagine what a consumer version is like: Google a Blackberry Playbook demo to see its power. To be accurate, that OS is a combo of QNX and Blackberry addon's. Most couldn't run Internet and two games at once without lag. ;)