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| 6 | <title>Introduction</title> |
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| 7 | <graphic align="center" fileref="images/helenos.gif" /> |
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| 9 | <para>The HelenOS project is an effort to develop an easily portable, |
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| 10 | light but durable operating system. HelenOS supports SMP, multitasking |
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| 11 | and multithreading on both 32-bit and 64-bit, little-endian and |
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| 12 | big-endian, processor architectures, among wich are AMD64/EM64T |
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| 13 | (x86-64), IA-32, IA-64 (Itanium), 32-bit MIPS, 32-bit PowerPC and SPARC |
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| 14 | V9.</para> |
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| 16 | <para>This manual should help you understanding design concepts of |
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| 17 | different part of the operating system.</para> |
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| 19 | <para>In case you are interested in our project or have any questions |
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| 20 | about it, feel free to subscribe to our <ulink |
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| 21 | url="http://www.helenos.eu/?reason=list">mailing list</ulink>. We are |
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| 22 | looking for people to join our team or to merely try out our system and |
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| 23 | become our beta testers.</para> |
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| 25 | </chapter> |
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