Installation
Ok, you really want to get a serious Helios buff. Good! First, download the Helios archive. I strongly recommend to go for the most recent version, which is 1.3.1. The Archive is a huge 12MB (erm, in...
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Very well, while the filenames are streamlined now, we need to prepare Helios’ configuration files before we get things going. Host configuration There’s a central config file for your host, that’s...
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Booting Helios
Now that we have all config files adjusted to our needs, we should try to boot it. Normally a simple call to SERVER.EXE should do it, so try now: C:\TRANS\HELIOS13> server [RETURN] This should show...
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Adding more Transputers
Perfect, we have a running Helios system now. But with just one CPU it’s not that exciting as it should be. With just one MB there’s not much you can do with the system, 2MB allows to run some programs...
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Networking
Alright, so we have a UNIX’ish OS running on our Transputer(s). After a while staring at the ‘network show’ command, hysterically giggling about soooo much computing power, you might think: Hey, what...
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Yup, Helios is a Multitasking-Multiuser OS… but not quite as you might got used to it using UNIX(ish) OSes in recent times. There are some caveats: Theory As Helios is running on Transputers (mostly)...
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Running X Window
This is probably the pinacle of what you can do with Helios… literally, as there are probably just a handfull of people left having the needed hardware. This is because the Helios X Window System only...
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Troubleshooting
This post is constantly growing, it’s mainly for me remembering not making some fu**ups again… but it might be useful for you, too Debugging the server Booting Helios with server.exe you can provide a...
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