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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>
<para>This manual should help you understanding design concepts of different
part of the operating system.</para>
<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>
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