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| \chapter{Introduction} |
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| HelenOS is an development operating system intended to |
| be a testbed for research in the field of operating |
| systems and system-level programming. This manual is |
| a guide for building, running and enhancing HelenOS. |
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| The system, as any other operating system, can be divided |
| into platform independent and platform dependent parts. |
| An user space program could be written in such |
| a way that it can be compiled and executed on any |
| of the platforms HelenOS supports without any modifications. |
| However it might work as a device driver or perform |
| other special tasks and thus being platform dependent. |
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| \section{Structure of HelenOS} |
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| The HelenOS system cosists of three major parts: |
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| \begin{itemize} |
| \item Kernel |
| \item User space tasks |
| \item Boot infrastructure |
| \end{itemize} |