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Re: Helios is back from the dead... say hello to Helios-NG

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From Erik Baigar <erik@baigar.de>
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Subject Re: Helios is back from the dead... say hello to Helios-NG
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Axel Muhr wrote:

Hi Axel!

> Just in case you haven't heard yet: Helios, the wonderful UNIX-like OS for Transputers (and other CPUs) is back!
> Working on it the last  year on-and-off I pleased to announce the availability of the Helios source code.

That sounds really great - as I am still using Transputers and 
a SUN SS20 for hobby projects this is excellent news! Surely I 
will try to compile the original on my gear in the upcoming 
weeks!

> This is just a start. Next up is "Hati" (the other wolf, hunting the moon) which means cross-compiling Helios on e.g. Linux - or any other modern OS. When that's done - and we have a broader platform for other developers lacking a SUN box - there are many ways to proceed:
> - add more (modern) features
> - support more hardware
> - support more and/or modern CPU architectures (ARM is already there... ARM7xx though. Not ARMv7!)

Well let's see where the route will lead us! Hopefully the
plus of developers and new, modern hardware will not lead to 
a huge amount of new dependencies which will prevent the upcoming 
versions from running on the nice SUN or other "original"
hardware...

  Thanks for your efforts which are highly appreciated!

       Erik.

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Helios is back from the dead... say hello to Helios-NG Axel Muhr <axel@geekdot.com> - 2014-03-22 04:00 -0700
  Re: Helios is back from the dead... say hello to Helios-NG Erik Baigar <erik@baigar.de> - 2014-03-23 18:58 +0100
  Re: Helios is back from the dead... say hello to Helios-NG carlier.damien@gmail.com - 2014-03-27 15:17 -0700

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