<s>
MenuetOS	B-Device
is	O
an	O
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
with	O
a	O
monolithic	B-Operating_System
preemptive	B-Operating_System
,	O
real-time	B-Operating_System
kernel	B-Operating_System
written	O
in	O
FASM	B-Application
assembly	B-Language
language	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
runs	O
on	O
64-bit	B-Device
and	O
32-bit	B-Device
x86	I-Device
architecture	O
computers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
a	O
graphical	O
desktop	O
,	O
games	O
,	O
and	O
networking	O
abilities	O
(	O
TCP/IP	B-Protocol
stack	I-Protocol
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
distinctive	O
feature	O
is	O
that	O
it	O
fits	O
on	O
one	O
floppy	B-Device
disk	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
MenuetOS	B-Device
was	O
originally	O
written	O
for	O
32-bit	B-Device
x86	I-Device
architectures	O
and	O
released	O
under	O
the	O
GPL-2.0-only	B-License
license	O
,	O
thus	O
many	O
of	O
its	O
applications	O
are	O
distributed	O
under	O
the	O
GPL	B-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
64-bit	B-Device
MenuetOS	B-Device
often	O
referred	O
to	O
as	O
Menuet	B-Device
64	O
,	O
remains	O
a	O
platform	O
for	O
learning	O
64-bit	B-Device
assembly	B-Language
language	I-Language
programming	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
64-bit	B-Device
Menuet	B-Device
is	O
distributed	O
without	O
charge	O
for	O
personal	O
and	O
educational	O
use	O
only	O
,	O
but	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
license	O
includes	O
a	O
clause	O
that	O
prohibits	O
disassembly	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Multi-core	B-Architecture
support	O
was	O
added	O
on	O
24	O
Feb	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MenuetOS	B-Device
development	O
has	O
focused	O
on	O
fast	O
,	O
simple	O
,	O
efficient	O
implementation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MenuetOS	B-Device
has	O
networking	O
abilities	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
working	O
TCP/IP	B-Protocol
stack	I-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
main	O
focus	O
of	O
Menuet	B-Device
has	O
been	O
on	O
making	O
an	O
environment	O
for	O
easy	O
assembly	B-Language
programming	I-Language
,	O
but	O
it	O
is	O
still	O
possible	O
to	O
run	O
software	O
written	O
in	O
high-level	B-Language
programming	I-Language
languages	I-Language
on	O
the	O
assembler	B-Language
core	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
biggest	O
single	O
effort	O
towards	O
high-level	B-Language
language	I-Language
support	O
is	O
Jarek	O
Pelczar	O
's	O
work	O
in	O
porting	O
C	B-Language
libraries	I-Language
to	O
Menuet	B-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
GUI	B-Application
at	O
version	O
0.99	O
supports	O
display	B-General_Concept
resolutions	I-General_Concept
up	O
to	O
(	O
16	O
million	O
colours	O
)	O
with	O
window	O
transparency	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MenuetOS	B-Device
ships	O
with	O
the	O
shareware	O
versions	O
of	O
Quake	B-Application
and	O
Doom	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
disk	O
access	O
,	O
MenuetOS	B-Device
supports	O
the	O
FAT32	O
file	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
64-bit	B-Device
main	O
distribution	O
is	O
now	O
proprietary	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Several	O
distributions	O
of	O
the	O
32-bit	O
GPL	B-License
MenuetOS	B-Device
still	O
exist	O
,	O
including	O
translations	O
in	O
Russian	O
,	O
Chinese	O
,	O
Czech	O
,	O
and	O
Serbian	O
.	O
</s>
