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From: chimiak@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Dr. William Chimiak)
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Subject: Re: TRON (a little long)
Keywords: Japan, TRON, operating systems
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Date: 23 Jun 89 14:48:00 GMT
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Could it be that Japan hopes to develop adequate software and hardware
for a domestic market they have targetted?  Now that they have a
standard that the US cares nothing about, those machines (no matter how
inferior or superior) are national standards for a selected market.
They have a hammerlock on the their market and they still support
popular non-Japanese systems for foreign sales and have a clever
impediment to foreign sales.  In addition, if TRON meets design goals,
then they will storm foreign markets.