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From: jdm@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (James D Mooney,205K,7,2913548)
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Subject: Re: TRON
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Date: 6 Jul 89 14:30:26 GMT
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From article <9870@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, by bobk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Bob Kinne):
> The sense I have always had of TRON is that it is a consortium of
> Japanese industries with strong government support and with an
> overall goal of leap-frogging the Japanese computer industry to a
> leading position in the world.  In this context, it would hardly
> be expected that they would invite U. S. companies to join and
> participate.

Unlike some other big Japanese projects, TRON carefully avoids all
government support.  It is fully industry sponsored.  The TRON
Association has always been open to any company willing to pay the
fee, and it has a number of non-Japanese members.

> improvement in tracking the work, but TRON, much like IBM, is very
> willing to publish and talk about overall goals and architecture,
> but is much less willing to share information about specific
> advances and implementations.  This knowledge is regarded as being
> in the category of innovation and trade secrets, and is not likely
> to ever be presented openly.

TRON specifications are available for purchase when they are completed.
Implementations are done by individual companies, not the TRON Project;
thus they undoubtedly include proprietary techniques and trade secrets
in some cases.  However, good descriptions of many implementations have
already been published in the open literature.

Jim Mooney				Dept. of Stat. & Computer Science
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