Summary: | Basic informations on HelenOS operating system (support functions, scheduler, memory management, application support, device driver environment, inter-process communication). IA-64 processor overview (instruction computing - EPIC, register stack engine - RSE, system registers, protection, memory access, interruption, I/O, inter-processor communication, firmware - PAL). IA-64 computers environment (firmware - SAL, lagacy devices, USB). Overview of implemented changes (loader, boot, I/O, interruption, video output, keyboard input, multiprocessing). Evaluation of achievements and misses of implementation.
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