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| 41 | jermar | 2 | <chapter id="intro"> |
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| 5 | <title>Introduction</title> |
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| 43 | jermar | 7 | <para> <mediaobject id="helenos"> |
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| 15 | </mediaobject></para> |
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| 9 | bondari | 16 | |
| 41 | jermar | 17 | <para>The HelenOS project is an effort to develop an easily portable, light |
| 18 | but durable operating system. HelenOS supports SMP, multitasking and |
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| 19 | multithreading on both 32-bit and 64-bit, little-endian and big-endian, |
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| 20 | processor architectures, among wich are AMD64/EM64T (x86-64), IA-32, IA-64 |
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| 21 | (Itanium), 32-bit MIPS, 32-bit PowerPC and SPARC V9.</para> |
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| 9 | bondari | 22 | |
| 41 | jermar | 23 | <para>This manual should help you understanding design concepts of different |
| 24 | part of the operating system.</para> |
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| 41 | jermar | 26 | <para>In case you are interested in our project or have any questions about |
| 27 | it, feel free to subscribe to our <ulink |
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| 28 | url="http://www.helenos.eu/?reason=list">mailing list</ulink>. We are |
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| 29 | looking for people to join our team or to merely try out our system and |
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| 30 | become our beta testers.</para> |
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| 31 | </chapter> |