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From: mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: TRON (a little long)
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Date: 16 Jun 89 00:39:29 GMT
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> Why is there little apparent interest in TRON?

The manufacturers are all Japanese, and have not promoted TRON in the US.
As far as I can tell, they don't intend to do so, and US distribution is
likely to be slim or nonexistent.

Also, as Alan Baum has pointed out, the TRON architecture is considered to
be very slow for the amount of silicon it requires.  Designers today look
at the 680x0 or 80x86 if they want binary compatibility with existing
software, and at RISC processors if they want optimum price/performance.
I don't see what the motivation would be to look at TRON.

Michael Slater, Microprocessor Report