Distributed operating system for transputers

Abstract Helios is a multiprocessor, multiuser distributed operating system. It efficiently controls the resources of multiprocessor architectures and provides an advanced interface to multiple users of such architectures. Although the principles are applicable to any distributed memory architecture, this paper describes the first implementation, optimized for the transputer.

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