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| <title>Introduction</title> |
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| <para>The HelenOS project is an effort to develop an easily portable, light |
| but durable operating system. HelenOS supports SMP, multitasking and |
| multithreading on both 32-bit and 64-bit, little-endian and big-endian, |
| processor architectures, among wich are AMD64/EM64T (x86-64), IA-32, IA-64 |
| (Itanium), 32-bit MIPS, 32-bit PowerPC and SPARC V9.</para> |
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| <para>This manual should help you understanding design concepts of different |
| part of the operating system.</para> |
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| <para>In case you are interested in our project or have any questions about |
| it, feel free to subscribe to our <ulink |
| url="http://www.helenos.eu/?reason=list">mailing list</ulink>. We are |
| looking for people to join our team or to merely try out our system and |
| become our beta testers.</para> |
| <para>This book describes the design and principles of the HelenOS operating |
| system from the perspective of its microkernel as well as from the |
| perspective of its userspace drivers and server tasks.</para> |
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