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