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  <title>Introduction</title>
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  <title>Introduction</title>
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  <para>HelenOS is a portable operating system with support for a variety of modern
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  processor architectures<footnote>
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      <para>amd64, ia32, ia64, mips32 and ppc32.</para>
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    </footnote>.</para>
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  <para>This book describes the design and principles of the HelenOS operating
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  <para>This book describes the design and principles of the HelenOS operating
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  system from the perspective of its microkernel as well as from the
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  system from the perspective of its microkernel as well as from the
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  perspective of its userspace drivers and server tasks. Its primary goal is
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  perspective of its userspace drivers and server tasks. Its primary goal is
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  to present ideas behind each subsystem and highlight things that are
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  to present ideas behind each subsystem and highlight things that are
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  specific to HelenOS. Although this text contains references to source code
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  specific to HelenOS. Although this text contains references to source code