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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 68030 box, Cringely, Comdex
Message-ID: <75352@sun.uucp>
Date: 31 Oct 88 03:41:46 GMT
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In article <1199@atari.UUCP> good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good) writes:
>Helios is the parallel processing version of UNIXtm which is the basis of
>the transputer based Atari Transputer Workstation (ATW, formerly known as
>Abaq).

Unless perhilion has changed what they are doing radically, Helios is a 
transputer O/S with a system interface that is *similar* to UNIX. MACH
is a parallel processing version of UNIX. The distinction is small but
important. 

>Our 68030 box will run X/OPEN compliant V.3.1. Which shows our commitment to
>both Europe (X/OPEN) AND USA (V.3.1)!

Nice job, the next question is will 4.3 BSD be supported ? Many universities
and technical folks prefer it and it's semantices. 

--Chuck McManis
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These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.