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From: alan@oz.nm.paradyne.com (Alan Lovejoy)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: TRON (message from the project leader)
Keywords: TRON, standards, operating systems, distributed systems
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Date: 9 Jul 89 14:41:43 GMT
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In article <4919@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>You can be TRON compatible without using a funky operating system on a brain-
>dead CISC micro. 

Just like you can be IBM-PC compatible without using MS-DOS on a brain-dead
Intel-based micro?  True but irrelevant.  As history has shown, businessmen
do not think like techies.  MS-DOS machines with Intel CPUs vastly outnumber
UNIX workstations for business, not technical, reasons.  Why should Westinghouse
spend mucho money to develop their own proprietary TRON-like system for
household appliances when they can leverage off of the investments the
Japanese have made in STANDARD tools?

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