Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news.space.net!news.m-online.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Erik Baigar Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: Helios is back from the dead... say hello to Helios-NG Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:58:37 +0100 Organization: (posted via) M-net Telekommunikations GmbH Lines: 26 Message-ID: <532F20CD.8E2F6051@baigar.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-93-104-29-16.dynamic.mnet-online.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.m-online.net 1395597517 24309 93.104.29.16 (23 Mar 2014 17:58:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.m-online.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 17:58:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX64 6.5 IP28) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.transputer:118 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.