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From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.std.misc,comp.arch,comp.os.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: TRON (a little long)
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Date: 10 Jul 89 09:15:39 GMT
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Sorry for dropping comp.realtime from the distribution.  rn wisely knows
to abort when I try to followup to a group that we don't get.

In article <26079@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:

>Other times it appears like a UNIX killer (or knock off).

Well, it is better thought out than Unix.  There have been twenty years
of newer inventions since the creation of Unix, and Tron takes about
33% of the possible advantage that it could have taken.

>So far, my overall impression is that TRON is second only to the FGP
>(Fifth Generation Project) in terms of hype.

True.  But there is some technical substance behind it.  The technical
advance is less than it should be but greater than zero.  The garbage
component is larger than it should be but less than 100%.

>If Japan had a William
>Proxmire, it would have received a Golden Fleece award.

Not true!  It does not receive political funding like 5th generation or
like the projects that Proxmire gives awards to.  Indirectly it does
receive some tax funding just like the endeavors of U.S. universities
are tax-supported.  And private companies make private investments.

--
Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.jp@relay.cs.net)
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