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From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
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Subject: Re: TRON (a little long)
Keywords: Japan, TRON, operating systems
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Date: 26 Jun 89 02:38:51 GMT
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*** comp.realtime has been removed from this follow-up because our news
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In article <2140@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> chimiakb@mmlai.uu.net. (Dr. William Chimiak) writes:

>Could it be that Japan hopes to develop adequate software and hardware
>for a domestic market they have targetted?

You mean like the U.S.A. has done?  Blocking better OS's from some
American vendors?

>Now that they have a standard that the US cares nothing about,

That is the U.S.A.'s problem.  Japan cares something about American
operating systems, including inferior ones.

>those machines (no matter how
>inferior or superior) are national standards for a selected market.

Just like the U.S.A. did.

>They have a hammerlock on the their market

TRON will be public domain, unlike any U.S. operating system that I am
aware of.  Any serious U.S. company that is not preparing their TRON
OS now is rather foolish.

>and they still support popular non-Japanese systems for foreign sales

Yes, and the U.S.A. should learn to support popular non-American systems.

>and have a clever
>impediment to foreign sales.  In addition, if TRON meets design goals,
>then they will storm foreign markets.

Again, any serious U.S. company that is not preparing their TRON OS now,
even for their home market, is rather foolish.

***  There are reasons to be critical of TRON (several of its aspects
anyway), but Dr. Chimiak's posting did not cite any valid ones.

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