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Helios-NG
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axelmuhr / Helios-NG

Helios-NG

Breathing new live in Helios, an OS from the 90's

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3Mentions
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99GitHub stars
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Breathing new live in Helios, an OS from the 90's

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Observed mentions: 2022-04-27 11:36:20 UTC to 2023-02-27 08:31:18 UTC.

012022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 20222022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20222022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 2023

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Yes, I think this was part of the problem, and that's why the original article I submitted says that part of the OS is in hardware. It was not friendly to users who wanted a free choice of languages. The fact that some languages (and OSes back then) were not well-suited to parallel processing, and thus programming parallel programs, which you needed to make effective use of transputer systems, did not get across to people. Now, I suspect most people think we have a very wide, free choice of programming languages -- but the truth is that for 25+ years, mainstream CPU designs are C-centric, designed to be easily programmable in C and to run OSes implemented in C. This wasn't true in the 1960s-1980s, when there were, for example, many 9-bit, 12-bit, 18-bit, 24-bit and 36-bit machines, on which C did not sit well at all. The transputer arguab
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ly came in a bit too early for widespread adoption of parallel multicore computers, but also was paradoxically too late, as it needed non-C-like languages and some of its own OSes for most effective use. Occam polarised people. Some people liked it, but many hated it. Interesting, the transputer OS Helios later got ported to other architectures: https://github.com/axelmuhr/Helios-NG
In Implementing a Transputer system using RasPi Pico and RAM expansion

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