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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: TRON (message from the project leader)
Keywords: TRON, standards, operating systems, distributed systems
Message-ID: <4919@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 9 Jul 89 02:18:28 GMT
References: <389@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> <6340@pdn.paradyne.com> <6350@pdn.paradyne.com>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <6350@pdn.paradyne.com>, alan@oz.nm.paradyne.com (Alan Lovejoy) writes:
> The Japanese are going to be marketing TRON PC's, TRON audio equipment, 
> TRON video equipment, TRON ovens, refrigerators, dishwashers, hot-water
> heaters and central heating/air-conditioning systems, TRON security systems
> and TRON lighting fixtures.  With all that in your house, will you really
> be interested in buying an Intel HDTV system that is NOT TRON compatible?

You can be TRON compatible without using a funky operating system on a brain-
dead CISC micro. Designing your operating system around a communications
protocol hasn't been successful in the past, you know.

As a simile, consider that UNIX was developed on a PDP-11. How many systems
here are PDP-11s? How many aren't even running UNIX?
-- 
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