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From: charette@edsews.EDS.COM (Mark A. Charette)
Newsgroups: comp.std.misc,comp.realtime,comp.arch,comp.os.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: TRON (a little long)
Keywords: Japan, TRON, standards, networks, operating systems
Message-ID: <14645@edsews.EDS.COM>
Date: 16 Jun 89 13:39:19 GMT
References: <382@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Organization: EDS/TSD - Troy, MI
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In article <382@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>, jdm@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (James D Mooney) writes:
> 
> 
> The goal of TRON is to develop a wide-ranging collection of standards
> for use in a very comprehensive distributed network -- one which is
> globally connected but involves everything from large hosts to
> workstations to a multitude of embedded processors in "intelligent
> objects" such as the components of a "smart house."  In the TRON
> vision, all of these elements could easily communicate, even though
> produced by many different manufacturers.
> 

One aspect of this, the communications between the processors, has me 
worried somewhat.  When I read some reports on TRON (which are not handy
at the moment), I noticed that the intent was for all processors on the
TRON network to have the ability to communicate. The `smartness' intended
for the TRON network could be subverted to governmental or criminal misuse
very easily. Remember, just using a credit card in stores today with card
readers could let someone (with intents other than making sure your credit
limit hasn't been exceeded) know where you are and what you're doing. 


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