N.B. This copy of Helios 1.3 is made available on the basis of the following
exchange of email between Olivier Aichelbaum (OA) and Perihelion (P),
during the latters' last days of existence. 

OA: 
  bonjour
  we are about 10 Atari Transputer Workstation users.
  some of us lost our Operating System.
  others use Helios 1.3 or older.
  As you don't sell anymore Helios for ATW, i'd like to
  know if installing Helios on computer that "losted" it
  would be piracy ?"

P:
  No. Please feel free to copy and use Transputer Helios as you like,
  provided that you do not charge for it.

Installation

Here are some very rudimentary installation instructions off the top of my
head: use the feedback form^1 or email^2 me if they don't work, or if you have
corrections to offer. 

The .zip files in this directory contain an installation of Helios 1.3 for
the ATW. They were prepared using STzip 2.6, but you should be able to
unpack
them with any ZIP utility. 

You should have a partition on your ATW hard disk which contains nothing but
a single (empty) folder, called "helios". Unzip the files install1.zip,
install2.zip, and install3.zip onto three 720 kB floppies, and copy their
contents into this directory: except for the two files "host.con" and
"server.prg" on
the third disk, which should be copied to the root of the partition or to
C:. Use a text editor to set the pathnames in host.con to the partition
which
contains the helios directory. If you now run server.prg, you should boot
into Helios. 

Unzip cc.zip, examples.zip, gnu.zip and help.zip onto 720 kB floppies. Once
you are in Helios, log in as root and run the program "loadpac" to install
these. 

Good luck!


1) http://www.digiweb.com/kiffer/ATW/fbQ.cgi
2) mailto:chris@kiffer.eunet.be