Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Sep 2009 23:15 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
It seems like Microsoft Research is really busy these days with research operating systems. We had Singularity, a microkernel operating system written in managed code, and late last week we were acquainted with Barrelfish, a "multikernel" system which treats a multicore system as a network of independent cores, using ideas from distributed systems. Now, we have a third contestant, and it's called Helios.
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There was an OS called Helios back in the early 90s built specifically to provide a nix like OS on Transputer arrays, hence massively parallel. When the chip died, the OS was abandoned soon after. I only ever saw it at a VR show in London around 1990.
I also have to wonder why Singularity hasn't continued or the experiment "done".
google Helios for Transputers
Good job Haiku got done before BeOS name got recycled too.