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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ATW - Any News ?
Message-ID: <7827@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 89 17:49:49 GMT
References: <499@nixpbe.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <499@nixpbe.UUCP>, mboen@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening) says:
> Xref: cbmvax comp.sys.atari.st:19823 dnet.atari:0

> The operating systzem for the ATW is HELIOS. HELIOS is almost completely
> compatible to UNIX (TM) [footnote: UNIX is a registered Trademark of AT&T]
> and was designed specially for multiprocessor-systems (Transputer networks).
> Several Transputer workstations can be combined to one Multiuser-system.

What's missing is memory protection.  The only way multiple tasks can be
isolated from one another at all under Helios, or any other Transputer
operating system, is to be running on different transputers.  All other
Workstation-type machines offer hardware memory protection on a task by
task basis.

> Martin

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